Famine Diary.
Author: O CATHAOIR, Brendan.
Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1999. xix, 201 pages. Paperback.
“A unique record of the Great Famine, written with insight, detachment and empathy. Based on a wide selection of sources - contemporary newspapers, official correspondence and diaries - it provides a graphic picture of conditions in the Irish countryside as the crisis developed. It combines analysis and an overview with a focus on the worst-hit areas. The uniquely eloquent Famine Diary documents the Great Hunger and ensuing Diaspora.
Historian and journalist, BRENDAN O CATHAOIR is author of the Irish Times column Famine Diary upon which this book is based. He is the biographer of John Blake Dillon: Young Irelander (Irish Academic Press, 1990).”
ISBN: 0716527316
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