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Title: The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham Smith, Cecil Woodham-Smith, Charles Woodham ISBN: 0-14-014515-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What potato famine...
Comment: The failure of the potato crops covered all of the British Isles and much of Western Europe;but it was only in Ireland,and principally in the rural west,that "The Great Hunger" occured.This book gives the facts so that one must conclude that it was nothing short of Genocide orchestrated by the British Crown. To believe otherwise, one would have to believe that the Crown was not in control..an enormous stretch of the imagination. This book is very well written and tells the truth of what happened.
Rating: 5
Summary: This Book Sets the Standard
Comment: This is by far the most complete and best written account of the Great Hunger in Ireland. Woodham-Smith sets forth in heart-wrenching detail the causes, experiences and effects of the great potato blight in the mid 1800s in Ireland. Unflinching in its indictment of the laissez-faire response of British authorities such as Trevelyan and Russell, this thorough history sheds a blinding light on a dark period in this history of this great and troubled nation. If you read only one account of the Hunger, make this the one.
Rating: 3
Summary: Thoroughly researched account that paints a complete picture
Comment: A good book to read on the subject if you you're looking for a single text on the subject of the Irish Potato Famine. I do appreciate the technical and fact filled nature of Smith's writing. What it lacks in specific details on human suffering it makes up for with detailed accounts on the conditions and players that led to this tragedy. This book covers the political and cultural environments of the time as well as the greater effect the famine had on Ireland and the rest of the world. I came away from the book with a clearer picture of the relationship between Ireland and England, and a better understanding of the role each country (and their populations, press, government officials, landowners, farmers and royalty) played.
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Title: Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred by Thomas Gallagher ISBN: 0156707004 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 13 May, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Famine Ships : The Irish Exodus to America by Edward Laxton ISBN: 0805058443 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Great Irish Potato Famine by James S., Jr. Donnelly ISBN: 0750929286 Publisher: Sutton Publishing Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti ISBN: 0618002715 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 29 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Great Shame : And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World by Thomas Keneally ISBN: 0385720262 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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