The Great Irish Famine: 1846-1851

A wide-ranging scholarly introduction to this watershed event integrating new research, methodologies and perspectives.

The Great Irish Famine is an accessible critical account to one of the deadliest humanitarian catastrophes of the nineteenth century and a defining episode in Irish and British history. Drawing on the latest international scholarship and newly unearthed primary sources, Fabrice Bensimon and Laurent Colantonio reassess the causes, course, and consequences of the Famine that,...