The Great Shame: A Story Of The Irish In The Old World And The New
Author: Thomas Keneally
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: 9780091840617
: Random House Australia
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: September 1999
: 235mm X 154mm X 49mm
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Description
In the nineteenth century, the Irish population was halved. This astonishing work of non-fiction, based on a quest not unlike Thomas Keneally's work on Oscar Schindler, investigates the three causes of this depletion: the famine, emigration and transportation to Australia.
