Crabtree's Collection Old Books: Ireland
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Paddy's Lament: Ireland 1846-1847 "shocking, powerful" account of the great famine and the Irish diaspora to America.
NY, Harvest/Harcourt, (1987). 1st Harvest. VG lg sz PB. Quite suddenly in 1846 an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the Irish otato crop into inedible slime. It had been the sole source of nutrition for the vast Irish peasantry. Gallagher's father immigrated to the U.S. from Ireland via England, grew up in NY. He was the author of several other books of world history and topics of Irish interest.
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USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2305]
Catalogue: Ireland
Tinkers & Travellers: Ireland's nomads.
Dublin, Ireland, O'Briend Press, (1979). 2nd edition. VG large size softover. Photos showing the faces, marked by time and weather, hardship and dirt, clothes tattered and filthy, campsires squalid. littered, exposed, horses, childdren, guttering fires, caravans, weddings, youth and age and everywher3e resilienc. The author spent 13 months living with the travellers in Ireland in a horse-drawn carriage.
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USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 15.75 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 2594]
Catalogue: Ireland
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