Full name: The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849

Author: Cecil Woodham-Smith Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780140145151 014014515X

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account.‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ - D.W. Brogan. Similar books: The Famine Ships by Edward Laxton Paddy's Lament by Thomas Gallagher The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan Irish History For Dummies by Mike Cronin The Graves Are Walking by John Kelly The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally The Story of the Irish Race by Seumas MacManus The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan The Transformation of Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter Fractured Emerald: Ireland by Emily Hahn Emigrants and Exiles by Kerby A. Miller Irish Freedom by Richard English Armed Struggle by Richard English All Standing by Kathryn Miles Black Potatoes by Susan Campbell Bartoletti