How Long to Read Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

How Long Does it Take to Read Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 51 minutes to read Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine by Cathal Poirteir

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Famine Echoes is a groundbreaking oral account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845–52, telling the stories of its victims for the first time ever in their own words and those of their descendants. 'When the potato crop failed no other food was available and the people perished by the hundreds of thousands, along the roadside, in the ditches, in the fields from hunger and cold, and what was even worse – the famine fever. The strongest men were reduced to mere skeletons and they could be met daily with the clothes hanging on them like ghosts.' The Great Irish Famine is the greatest tragedy in Irish history. Over one million people died and nearly two million emigrated as a result. Famine Echoes gives a voice to its victims, offering a unique perspective on the Great Hunger, the defining event of modern Irish history. In Famine Echoes, descendants of Famine survivors recall the community memories of the great hunger in their own words, conveying like never before the heartbreak and horrors their relatives experienced. This remarkable book, a seminal record of the oral transmission of folk memory, is a record of the last living link with the survivors of Ireland's most devastating historical event. In the 1940s, the Folklore Commission conducted interviews with thousands of elderly people around Ireland who remembered what they themselves had heard from ancestors who had survived the Famine. Cathal Póirtéir has edited a selection of these recollections, arranging the material in an order which follows the rough chronology of the Famine itself. Famine Echoes is published to coincide with the RTÉ Radio series of the same name. Famine Echoes: Table of Contents - Folk Memory and the Famine - Before the Bad Times - Abundance Abused and the Blight - Turnips, Blood, Herbs and Fish - 'No Sin and You Starving' - Mouths Stained Green - 'The Fever, God Bless Us' - The Paupers and the Poorhouse - Boilers, Stirabout and 'Yellow Male' - New Lines and 'Male Roads' - 'Soupers', 'Jumpers' and 'Cat Breacs' - The Bottomless Coffin and the Famine Pit - Landlords, Grain and Government - Agents, Grabbers and Gombeen Men - 'A Terrible Levelling of Houses' - The Coffin Ships and the Going Away - Of Curses, Kindness and Miraculous FoodAppendix I Appendix II

How long is Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine?

Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine by Cathal Poirteir is 345 pages long, and a total of 87,975 words.

This makes it 116% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours to read Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine aloud.

What Reading Level is Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine?

Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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