TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keneally,Thomas
TI  - The great shame : : a story of the Irish in the Old World and the New / 
SN  - 0749-38604-5
U1  - 941.508 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Vintage, 
KW  - Political prisoners
KW  - Ireland
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Australia
KW  - Irish
KW  - United States
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Famines
KW  - Famine, 1845-1852
KW  - Emigration and immigration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 687-[697]) and index
N2  - In the 19th century the Irish population was halved. This text traces the three causes of this depletion: firstly, the famine; secondly the Irish diaspora and the emigrations to places such as America and Canada; and thirdly the transportations of political activists to Australia
ER  -