The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith, Charles Woodham

The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849

Cecil Woodham-Smith, Charles Woodham

528 pages first pub 1962 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ‘...

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