The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly

The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People

John Kelly with Gerard Doyle (Narrator)

13 hours, 51 minutes first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction historical history challenging informative slow-paced
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It started in 1845 and lasted six years. Before it was over, more than one million men, women, and children starved to death and another million fled the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was one of the worst d...

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reflective 37%
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