"Sets Irish archaeology on an exciting new course by tangibly proving the harshness of the famine and the workhouse system."--Charles E. Orser Jr., author of The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America "Sheds critical new light on the actualities of daily life in Famine-era Ireland, challenges some of the myths about the horrors of the workhouse experience, and restores humanity to the nameless dead."--Audrey Horning, author of Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic With one million dead, and just as many forced to...
"Sets Irish archaeology on an exciting new course by tangibly proving the harshness of the famine and the workhouse system."--Charles E. Orser Jr., au...
By examining the physical conditions of inmates that might have contributed to their institutionalization, as well as to the resulting health consequences, Jonny Geber sheds new and unprecedented light on Ireland's Great Hunger.
By examining the physical conditions of inmates that might have contributed to their institutionalization, as well as to the resulting health conseque...
