http://thevillagebookshop.ie Tue, 31 Oct 2017 15:47:51 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.15 http://thevillagebookshop.ie/index.php/product/the-great-hunger-ireland-1845-9/ http://thevillagebookshop.ie/index.php/product/the-great-hunger-ireland-1845-9/#comments Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:15:41 +0000 http://thevillagebookshop.ie/?post_type=product&p=166 ]]> 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.

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