A Death-Dealing Famine The Great Hunger in Ireland
, by Kinealy, Christine- ISBN: 9780745310749 | 0745310745
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/20/1997
Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52. The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants.