Beginning with the potato blight in 1845 and the resulting harvest failures that left the country's impoverised population foodless, this insightful new book explores how the government failed to help the poor, leading to many unecessary deaths. Draws on eyewitness accounts, official reports, newspa[...]
This is an engaging and moving account of this most destructive event in Irish history. Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the a[...]