The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy by Tim Pat Coogan

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

Tim Pat Coogan

288 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it ...

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