The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New

ISBN-10
0091840201
ISBN-13
9780091840204
Series
The Great Shame
Category
Famines
Pages
731
Language
English
Published
1998
Author
Thomas Keneally

Description

This story of oppression, famine, and emigration--a principal chapter in the story of man's inhumanity to man--becomes in Keneally's hands an act of resurrection; Irishmen and Irishwomen of a century and a half ago live once more within the ...

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