

The Irish Famine of the 1840s was a preventable tragedy, but who is to blame? This exploration opens a door to understanding all sides to this tragedy with an absorbing history provided by novelist Toibin that is supported by a collection of key documents selected by historian...

A superbly pithy account of the controversies surrounding the failure of Ireland's potato crop from 1845-1848.

The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s has been popularly perceived as a genocide attributable to the British gov't. In professional historical circles, however, such singular thinking was dismissed many years ago. And while British governmental sins of omission and commission...
