Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
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A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster
“Vigorous and engaging.”—Fintan O’Toole, The New Yorker
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million people dead and forcing millions more t...
“Vigorous and engaging.”—Fintan O’Toole, The New Yorker
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million people dead and forcing millions more t...






















