![]() ![]() It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Read more combines great literary power with great learning. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. Cecil Woodham-Smith The Great Hunger Hardcover Januby Cecil Woodham-Smith (Author), Illustrated (Illustrator) 189 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 22.25 72 Used from 1.65 9 New from 18.20 3 Collectible from 35. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. BIC Classification: 1DBR 3JH HBJD1 HBLL HBTB KCZ. ![]() The impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. ![]() The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The story of the Potato Famine of the 1840s which killed one million Irish peasants and. ![]() Description for The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 Paperback. ![]()
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