The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New by Thomas Keneally

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Small tear to back cover. Dust jacket is now protected in plastic cover.

In the nineteenth century, the Irish population was halved. The Great Shame is Thomas Keneally's astonishing work of non-fiction, traces the three causes of this depletion: the famine, the emigrations, and the transportations to Australia.

Based on unique research among little-used sources, this masterly book traces eighty years of Irish history, told through the intimate lens of political prisoners - some of them Keneally's ancestors who served time as convicts in Australia.