Compact Irish History: The Irish Famine 1845-52.
Author: PURDON, Edward.
Dublin: Mercier Press, 2000. 80 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
“The Famine of the 1840s deserves the capital letter it invariably gets. It was the greatest national calamity ever to befall a people in times of peace and has left its mark on all Irish people, down to the present. The loss of more than 2 million of the island’s people in seven biblical years of hunger and pestilence still haunts us a century and a half later. We want to know what exactly happened and why. This short account provides in a convenient form the story of the disaster: its causes, the inadequate official response to it, the forced emigration that followed it and its legacy of bitterness, which remains to this day.”
ISBN: 1856352994
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