The Last Irishman

The Last Irishman was written in 1851 in the form of a historical novel, but it was actually a real-time report of what was currently happening only a few hundred miles away from its French author, Elie Berthet (1815-1891). Although the Irish had been suffering under the cruel domination of the English for over six centuries, their miseries had reached their heights with the potato blight (their main food staple) which occurred in the 1845-1852 period. During those years, over one million I...