The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number fled the country within a decade.
The Great Irish Famine surveys the history of this great tragedy through the testimonies of four key contemporaries, conveying the immediacy of the unfolding disaster as never before.
They are:
John MacHale--the Catholic Archbishop of Tuam
John Mitchel--the radical nationalist
Elizabeth Smith--the Scottish-born wife of a Wicklow...
The Great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the defining event in the history of modern Ireland. At least one million people died, and double that number...
