ASIN: B00Q3W5GCG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 36
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts of the Famine written by survivors and newspapers*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“I have called it an artificial famine: that is to say, it was a famine which desolated a rich and fertile island that produced every year abundance and superabundance to sustain all her people and many more. The English, indeed, call the famine a 'dispensation of Providence;' and ascribe it entirely to the blight on potatoes. But potatoes failed in like manner all over Europe; yet there was no famine save in Ireland.” – John Mitchel, Young Ireland MovementAnyone who has ever heard of “the luck of the Irish” knows that it is not something to wish on someone, for few people in the British Isles have ever suffered as the Irish have. As one commissioner looking into the situation in Ireland wrote in February 1845, "It would be ...
