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No marks or tears, pages toning. Dust jacket has edging and chips, 2 short closed tears, not clipped. Map endpapers.
Souperism: Myth or Reality? A study of Catholics and Protestants during the Great Famine by Bowen, Desmond - 1970
by Bowen, Desmond
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Souperism: Myth or Reality? A study of Catholics and Protestants during the Great Famine
by Bowen, Desmond
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Cork, Ireland: The Mercier Press, 1970. Hardcover. 256p., cloth-covered boards, 5.75x8.75 inches, map endpapers, old price sticker on free front endpaper else very good first edition in an unclipped, edgeworn, and soiled dj. "Souperism" refers to the "long standing myth of Irish history that the persons who manned the soup kitchens during the famine gave relief supplies only to those Catholics who were willing to attend Protestant religious services.
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- Place of Publication Cork, Ireland
- Date Published 1970
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Souperism: Myth or Reality
by Desmond Bowen
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Souperism: Myth or Reality?
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Dublin, Ireland: Mercier Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Plum cloth boards with gilt titling on spine, 8vo., bottom corners lightly rubbed, also spine ends, else very good. Priceclipped DJ with small price sticker from Keohanes' Bookshops in Ireland, lightly edgeworn and rubbed with tiny chip at heel of spine, now protected with Brodart. Interior clean and unmarked, two pages dogeared unintentionally. Binding is sound and firm. BOOK INFO: A social history examining the role played by the clergy of various churches in Ireland during the Great Irish Famine and their relationship with the Catholic population. Bowen explores the myth that the parsons manning the soup kitchens at the time gave relief supplies only to Catholics willing to attend Protestant religious services; He reappraises Ireland's social and religious history from the objective perspective of a historian, painting the clergy as they really were and indicating that saints and sinners were found in all…
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