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The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849

The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849

by Cecil Woodham-Smith

  • HISTORY
  • 1995
  • PAPER
  • 510 PAGES

A masterful account of the Irish potato famine in which over one million people died. Woodham-Smith is especially good at describing the suffering of the Irish emigrants and in exposing the hostile Anglo-Irish relations of the time.  (IRE76, $18.00)


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