Ireland's arctic siege :
Kearns, Kevin Corrigan
Ireland's arctic siege : the big freeze of 1947 / Kevin C. Kearns. - Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2011. - 383 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, photos ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-371) and index.
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 (7°F), a piercing east wind reaching 6070 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.
Irish archival copy dust jacket shelved separately.
9780717148639 (hbk.) : £21.99
GBB1C6834 bnb
Winter storms--History--Ireland--20th century.
Blizzards--History--Ireland--20th century.
Ireland--History--1922-
Ireland--Social conditions--1922-1973.
941.50822
Ireland's arctic siege : the big freeze of 1947 / Kevin C. Kearns. - Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2011. - 383 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, photos ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-371) and index.
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 (7°F), a piercing east wind reaching 6070 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.
Irish archival copy dust jacket shelved separately.
9780717148639 (hbk.) : £21.99
GBB1C6834 bnb
Winter storms--History--Ireland--20th century.
Blizzards--History--Ireland--20th century.
Ireland--History--1922-
Ireland--Social conditions--1922-1973.
941.50822