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Irelands Arctic Siege: The Big Freeze of 1947 - Paperback - GOOD
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- ISBN
- 9780717154487
- Book Title
- Ireland's Arctic Siege : the Big Freeze of 1947
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Publisher
- M.H. Gill & Co. U. C.
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Nature, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Weather, Historiography, Sociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Ireland
- Item Width
- 5.1in
- Item Weight
- 14.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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On 19 January 1947 Ireland was invaded by a "freakish" anticyclonic weather phenomenon that lasted for two months. The arctic siege brought freezing temperatures of -14 Centigrade (7F), 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, 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. 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. This 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.
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Publisher
M.H. Gill & Co. U. C.
ISBN-10
0717154483
ISBN-13
9780717154487
eBay Product ID (ePID)
150580264
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ireland's Arctic Siege : the Big Freeze of 1947
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Weather, Historiography, Sociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Ireland
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Nature, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.1in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Da963
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
941.50822
Dewey Edition
23
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