The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849

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. 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. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Brogan.

• Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred
• The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
• The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
• Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850
• The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade
• Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford Paperbacks)
• The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America
• To Hell or Barbados: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland
• How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role From the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (The Hinges of History)
• The Easter Rising: A Guide to Dublin in 1916