The Great Hunger : Ireland 1845-1849 Paperback / softback
by Cecil Woodham-Smith
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:528 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/05/1991
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- ISBN:9780140145151
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:528 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:30/05/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9780140145151