The Great Shame: A Story Of The Irish In The Old World And The New
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few sagas in modern history carry the weight of suffering, resilience, and reinvention that defines the Irish diaspora — and The Great Shame stands as its definitive chronicle. Thomas Keneally, best known for Schindler's Ark, traces the harrowing journeys of Irish men and women from the brutal era of convict transportation and the catastrophic Great Famine of the 1840s, through their transplantation to the penal colonies of Australia and the battlefields of the American Civil War. Drawing on meticulous historical research and anchored by the true story of his own ancestor Hugh Larkin, Keneally constructs a sweeping, deeply human narrative that transforms dry historical record into vivid, breathing lives. The result is a monumental work of narrative history that refuses to let the dispossessed remain nameless. Keneally writes with the same moral urgency and narrative command that defines his celebrated fiction, blurring the line between scholarly history and gripping storytelling. The Great Shame confronts themes of colonial injustice, exile, identity, and the fierce tenacity of a people stripped of their homeland yet unbroken in spirit. It is a book that challenges readers to reckon with the political machinery of empire and the enduring human cost of forced migration — and to ask whether the world the Irish built in their new lands was truly a redemption, or simply a new form of the old shame.
Author: Thomas Keneally
Format: Paperback
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few sagas in modern history carry the weight of suffering, resilience, and reinvention that defines the Irish diaspora — and The Great Shame stands as its definitive chronicle. Thomas Keneally, best known for Schindler's Ark, traces the harrowing journeys of Irish men and women from the brutal era of convict transportation and the catastrophic Great Famine of the 1840s, through their transplantation to the penal colonies of Australia and the battlefields of the American Civil War. Drawing on meticulous historical research and anchored by the true story of his own ancestor Hugh Larkin, Keneally constructs a sweeping, deeply human narrative that transforms dry historical record into vivid, breathing lives. The result is a monumental work of narrative history that refuses to let the dispossessed remain nameless. Keneally writes with the same moral urgency and narrative command that defines his celebrated fiction, blurring the line between scholarly history and gripping storytelling. The Great Shame confronts themes of colonial injustice, exile, identity, and the fierce tenacity of a people stripped of their homeland yet unbroken in spirit. It is a book that challenges readers to reckon with the political machinery of empire and the enduring human cost of forced migration — and to ask whether the world the Irish built in their new lands was truly a redemption, or simply a new form of the old shame.