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The Irish famine
a documentary
By TóibÃn, Colm & Ferriter, Diarmaid
- ISBN
- 978-0-31230-051-7
- Publisher
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2002
Novelist Toibin (Blackwater Lightship) and historian and lecturer Ferriter (Dublin City Univ.) have edited and annotated a collection of letters, news reports, editorials, and statistics gathered from primary and published materials about the Irish famine of 1846-48. Contrary to a thesis first introduced in Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Great Hunger (1963), the editors argue that the famine was self-inflicted, shifting blame from the Bri...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
