The Irish famine

by Diarmaid Ferriter, Colm Tóibín

2002 214 pages eng

"The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s has been popularly perceived as a genocide attributable to the British government. In professional historical circles, however, such singular thinking was dismissed many years ago, as evidenced by the scathing academic response to Cecil Woodham-Smith's 1963 clas…