The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-49 Paperback

from br77rino

A devestating review of the details of the almost unimaginably horrible Irish famine of the late 1800's. Relentless and eye-opening. Jim Cramer mentioned it on "Mad Money" and I picked it up at the library that week out of curiosity. Wow. I have to admit though, I only read half of it by the time...

from setnahkt

The Potato Famine almost certainly caused more civilian deaths in Europe than any event since the Black Death and until the influenza epidemic of 1918. The exact tally isn't known, but Ireland was the only European country with an overall population decrease in the nineteenth century, and apparen...

from jcbrunner

An excellent case study in compassionate conservatism of how the English, unaffected by the potato famine upheld their purity in the belief about the free markets and watched from afar in horror how the wretched Irish died. As John F. Kennedy's reading of The Guns of August helped him understand ...

from le.vert.galant

The mendacity of the British government in denying the extent of Irish suffering and the absurdity of English culpability into exacerbating that suffering issue clearly laid out in this touchstone of historical prose.

from LibraryCin

2.75 stars In the mid-1800s, the main food in Ireland was potatoes. A disease (blight) hit potatoes and was devastating for the people of Ireland. There was nothing else to substitute, as it's what the most vulnerable populations ate. This was an audio, and as soon as I heard the narrator, I had ...