Subjects Lacking Words? - The Gray Zone of the Great Famine Paperback
Subjects Lacking Words? - The Gray Zone of the Great Famine Paperback In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, poor people were, in places, so reduced that they treated each other with brutal…
Specifikacia Subjects Lacking Words? - The Gray Zone of the Great Famine Paperback
Subjects Lacking Words? - The Gray Zone of the Great Famine Paperback
In the time of Ireland's Great Famine, poor people were, in places, so reduced that they treated each other with brutal callousness. Mothers snatched food from the hands of infants. Husbands abandoned wives and children.
People even killed for food. Neighbours stole each other's rations. And this callousness extended to the dead.
Human bodies were dumped in mass graves or left unburied to be ravaged by dogs and pigs, rats, ravens, and gulls. There were reports too of cannibalism. In later years, some people, who themselves suffered in the 1840s, were ashamed of having failed to offer human solidarity to others in distress.
Yet if there were subjects lacking words--things difficult to describe or explain--those who had been to the abyss did talk of it. Survivors of other humanitarian crises have shown human beings to be remarkably resilient. And, in the case of Ireland, there is no basis
Subjects of the Sultan
Zone of the Enders
The Garden of Words
Words of the Inuit
THE INVENTION OF WORDS
The War of Words