The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ire...
Kennedy, Liam / MacRaild, Donald M. / Darwen, Lewis / Gurrin, Brian
The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. This catastrophe ranks among the worst famines to afflict pre-industrial societies, and it retains an important place in the psyche of the Irish people and the Irish diaspora to this day. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular a...