Annals of the famine in Ireland / Asenath Nicholson ; edited by Maureen Murphy.
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- 9781874675945 (pbk) :
- 941.5081 21
Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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4 Week Loan | Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway | Merlin Park University Hospital, Galway | Library Merlin Pk Galway | HIS/NIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | GM05094 |
Originally published: New York: E. French, 1851.
Includes index.
At the height of the Irish famine, Asenath Nicholson began a one-woman relief operation in Dublin; a soup-kitchen, visits to homes of the poor and distributing bread in the streets. Similtaneously she wished to "bring the Bible to the poor". She wrote an eye-witness account of the events.
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