The great shame : a story of the Irish in the Old World and the New / Thomas Keneally.
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TextPublisher: North Sydney, N.S.W. Random House, 1999Copyright date: ©1998Edition: New editionDescription: 731 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780091840617 (paperback)Subject(s): Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Convicts -- History -- 19th century | Convicts -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Irish -- Australia -- History -- 19th century | Irish -- United States -- History -- 19th century | Political prisoners -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Political prisoners -- Australia -- History -- 19th century | Ireland -- History -- 19th century | Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 941.508 Summary: Based on unique research among little-used sources, this masterly book traces eighty years of Irish history, told through the intimate lens of political prisoners - some of them Keneally's ancestors who served time as convicts in Australia.
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Includes bibliographic refereces (p. 687-[697]) and index.
Based on unique research among little-used sources, this masterly book traces eighty years of Irish history, told through the intimate lens of political prisoners - some of them Keneally's ancestors who served time as convicts in Australia.
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