The famine plot : England's role in Ireland's greatest tragedy / Tim Pat Coogan.
Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 276 p. : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN: 9780230109520 (hbk.); 0230109527 (hbk.)Subject(s): Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Historiography | Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography | Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 941.5081 LOC classification: DA 950.7 | .C67 2012
Contents:
Setting the scene -- Born to filth -- A million deaths of no use -- Five actors and the orchards of hell -- Meal use -- Evictions -- The work schemes -- The workhouse -- Soup and souperism -- The Poor Law cometh -- Landlords targeted -- Emigration : escape by coffin ship -- The Propaganda of famine.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-270) and index.
Setting the scene -- Born to filth -- A million deaths of no use -- Five actors and the orchards of hell -- Meal use -- Evictions -- The work schemes -- The workhouse -- Soup and souperism -- The Poor Law cometh -- Landlords targeted -- Emigration : escape by coffin ship -- The Propaganda of famine.