The Great Shame and the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World.

XIII, 712 p.: Ill., Maps. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, minimale Randläsuren, Vorderschnitt unregelmäßig, sonst ein gutes Exemplar / dust jacket lightly rubbed, minimal edgewear, fore edge uneven, otherwise a good copy. - In the nineteenth century, Ireland lost half of its population to famine, emigration to the United States and Canada, and the forced transportation of convicts to Australia. The forebears of Thomas Keneally, author of Schindlers Lbt, were victims of that tragedy, and in The Great Shame Keneally has written an astonishing, monumental work that tells the full story of the Irish diaspora with the narrative grip and flair of a great novel. Based on unique research among little-known sources, this masterly book surveys eighty years of Irish history through the eyes of political prisoners—including Keneally’s ancestors—who left Ireland in chains and eventually found glory, in one form or another, in Australia and America. We meet William Smith O’Brien, leader of an uprising at the height of the Irish Famine, who rose from solitary confinement in Australia to become the Mandela of his age; Thomas Francis Meagher, whose escape from Australian captivity led to a glittering American career as an orator, a Union general, and governor of Montana; John Mitchel, who became a Confederate newspaper reporter, gave two of his sons to the Southern cause, was imprisoned with Jefferson Davis — and returned to Ireland to become mayor of Tipperary; and John Boyle O’Reilly, who fled a life sentence in Australia to become one of mneteenth-centuiy America’s leading literary lights. Through the lives of many such men and women — famous and obscure, some heroes and some fools (most a little of both), all of them stubborn, acutely sensitive, and devastatingly charming — we become immersed in the Irish experience and its astonishing history. From Ireland to Canada and the United States to the bush towns of Australia, we are plunged into stories of tragedy, survival, and triumph. All are vividly portrayed in Keneally’s spellbinding prose, as he reveals the enormous influence the exiled Irish have had on the English-speaking world. / Contents List of Illustrations Preface Note on the Text Maps BOOK I 1 HUGH LARKIN’S IRELAND 2 THE SHIPPING OF IRELAND, AND THE EXILE OF CHAINS 3 ASSIGNING IRELAND 4 THE LIMITS OF LOCATION 5 IRELAND AND THE WHITBY WOMEN 6 THE LASS FROM THE FEMALE FACTORY 7 IRELAND YOUNG AND OLD 8 A FOND FAREWELL TO THE WHITE POTATOES 9 A THOUSAND FAREWELLS TO YOU, ISLAND OF ST PATRICK 10 FIASCO AND NOBLE GESTURE: THE REBELLION OF YOUNG IRELAND 11 YOUNG IRELAND ON TRIAL 12 SHIPPING YOUNG IRELAND 13 BY ORDER OF GREAT DENISON 14 YOUNG IRELAND AND THE PROFANE COLONISTS 15 LOCKED WITHIN THE PYRAMID 16 THE SKELETON AT THE FEAST BOOK II 17 YOUNG IRELAND AND THE ISMS OF YANKEEDOM 18 IRELAND AND THE BLOODY ARENA 19 FAUGH-A-BALLAGH 20 THE CHICKAHOMINY STEEPLECHASE 21 WOEFULLY CUT UP 22 LET ME HAVE IDAHO 23 GLORIO, GLORIO, TO THE BOLD FENIAN MEN 24 RE-MAKING MONTANA; VIOLATING CANADA 25 FENIANS TRANSPORTED 26 THE FENIANS OF THE DESERT COAST 27 FENIANS AT LARGE 28 HOME RULE AND DYNAMITE 29 THE FENIAN WHALER 30 PERTH REGATTA DAY 31 REPUBLICAN CHRIST Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780385476973