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Excerpt from “Bogland” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966–1996, by Seamus Heaney. Copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Scanlan, Padraic X., author.
Title: Rot : an imperial history of the Irish famine / Padraic X. Scanlan.
Other titles: Imperial history of the Irish famine
Description: First U.S. edition. | New York, NY : Basic Books, 2025. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2024024247 | ISBN 9781541601543 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781541601550 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Famines—Ireland—History—19th century. | Late blight of potato—Ireland. | Ireland—History—Famine, 1845–1852. | Great Britain—Foreign economic relations—Ireland. | Ireland—Foreign economic relations—Great Britain. | Ireland—Colonial influence.
Classification: LCC DA950.7 .S34 2025 | DDC 941.7081—dc23/eng/20241118
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024024247
ISBNs: 9781541601543 (hardcover), 9781541601550 (ebook)
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