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Book SynopsisBy 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.
Trade ReviewImportant and well-conceived. . . . Provides a valuable dataset with which to critically interrogate available historical accounts of the Great Famine, daily life for Ireland’s poorer classes, the experiences of being inmates, and conditions within Ireland’s workhouses.""--Journal of Anthropological Research “Keenly anticipated. . . . Shows how archaeology can help both academic and non-specialist readers to comprehend the lives of even the most unfortunate.""--Antiquity ""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
