Famine Plot England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

Name: Famine Plot England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
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ISBN: 9781137278838

ISBN-10: 1137278838

ISBN-13: 9781137278838

Edition: 2013

Authors: Tim Pat Coogan

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During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland’s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this sweeping history Ireland’s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. In what The Boston Globe calls "his greatest achievement," Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 9/24/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.38" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Tim Pat Coogan was editor of the Irish Press and is now recognised as Irelandï¿½s leading popular historian of the twentieth century. He is based in Dublin, Ireland.