A review by oisin175
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People by John Kelly

4.0

I always enjoy when history authors add personal stories to their accounts to truly humanize the occurrence. After reading this book it is difficult to understand how the English of the early 1900s were confused about the Irish desire for independence. Considering the a significant portion of English discourse during the potato famine revolved around treating the Irish as a separate entity that was only nominally part of the UK, it seems absurd that after the Easter Rising their was a strong Unionist sentiment in England. It is also interesting to see that political argument concerning "dependence on government" and the need to make any government aid painful and infrequent apparently goes back until at least the early 1800s.