The Graves Are Walking Great Famine and Saga of Irish People Audiobook 12 CD NEW

Description: The Graves Are Walking:The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish Peopleby John KellyRead by Gerard Doyle Brand new and factory sealed. This is the 12-CD unabridged audiobook from John Kelly. It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst disasters in the nineteenth century. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings. The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Perhaps most important, this is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of exoneration. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequences. President Bill Clinton: "The Graves Are Walking is a cautionary tale for all who would risk calamity -- human, economic or ecological -- in the name of scoring an ideological victory."

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