Ireland's Arctic Siege of 1947 (ePub)

Name: Ireland's Arctic Siege of 1947
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The Big Freeze of 1947 (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Kevin C. Kearns

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This arctic siege brought freezing temperatures of 7° Fahrenheit (?14°C

, a piercing east wind reaching 60-70 m.p.h., five major blizzards, and snowdrifts of 12 to 20 feet-some topping 50. Cars, buses, houses and entire villages were buried,...

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This arctic siege brought freezing temperatures of 7° Fahrenheit (?14°C

, a piercing east wind reaching 60-70 m.p.h., five major blizzards, and snowdrifts of 12 to 20 feet-some topping 50. Cars, buses, houses and entire villages were buried, leaving scores of passengers and inhabitants marooned. Roads were blocked, telephone and electricity lines felled and towns and farms isolated as food and fuel dwindled. Tragically this happened amidst the worst fuel crisis in Ireland's history. People were forced to strip wood from their homes, and nearly half of all Dubliners were burning furniture to survive. Severe food shortages and a virulent influenza epidemic weakened people. By 19 February 1947 Dublin's death rate had more than doubled as the poor and elderly succumbed to hunger, cold and illness. Kevin C. Kearns presents a graphic account of what was regarded as a near-biblical calamity of blizzards, freezing, hunger, floods, and threatened famine-so imperilling, wrote one newspaper, that it seemed almost as if

the wrath of God was directed against Ireland.

It is a vivid tale of suffering and courage, death and survival, of human resilience and real heroism, poignantly authenticated by the oral testimony of those who lived through the arctic siege.

Autoren-Porträt von Kevin C. Kearns

Kevin C. Kearns, Ph.D., is a social historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Northern Colorado. He has made 38 research trips to Ireland, a number of which were funded by the National Geographic Society. Of his ten books on Dublin, five have been bestsellers, most notably Dublin Tenement Life which was number one on the Irish Times bestseller list for many weeks. He now resides in the coastal village of Camden, Maine.

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Autor: Kevin C. Kearns
2011, 404 Seiten, Englisch
Verlag: Gill Books
ISBN-10: 0717151964
ISBN-13: 9780717151967
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2011

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