‘Irish fever’ in Britain during the Great Famine: immigration, disease and the legacy of ‘Black ‘47’
During the worst year of the Great Irish Famine, ‘Black ‘47’, tens of thousands of people fled across the Irish Sea from Ireland to Britain, desperately escaping the starvation and disease plaguing their country. These refugees, crowding unavoidably into the most insalubrious accommodation British t...
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Cambridge University Press
2020
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/4936/1/IHR%20Irish%20Fever%20in%20Britain%20FINAL.pdf |