Victims of Ireland's great famine : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / Jonny Geber ; Foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.

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Geber uses the analysis of the remains from the mass burial ground within the former union workhouse in Kilkenny found in 2005 to address central questions regarding health conditions at the workhouse and to shed new light on the famine.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Main Author: Geber, Jonny (Author)
Other Authors: Larsen, Clark Spencer (writer of introduction, etc.)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Series:Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Subjects:
Famines > Ireland > Kilkenny (County) > History > 19th century.
Mass burials > Ireland > Kilkenny (County) > History > 19th century.
Workhouses > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Starvation > History > 19th century.
Poor > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852.
History.
1800 - 1899
Famines.
Mass burials.
Poor.
Starvation.
Workhouses.
Ireland.
Ireland > Kilkenny (County)
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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