Media: BOOK - paperback, 430 pages
Author: C. Woodham-Smith
Year: (1962) 1983

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove 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 the 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. First published in 1962, this is a true classic, and is now back in print.