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by Tim Pat Coogan

During a biblical seven years in the middle of the 19th century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated. In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland's best-known historian gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history.


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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 Mor, 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 laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible.

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  • Title The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
  • Author Tim Pat Coogan
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
  • Date 2013
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781137278838 / 1137278838
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.07 x 0.79 in (23.37 x 15.42 x 2.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
    • Cultural Region: Ireland
  • Library of Congress subjects Ireland - Social conditions - 19th century, Ireland - History - Famine, 1845-1852 -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013474632
  • Dewey Decimal Code 941.508

About the author

Tim Pat Coogan is Ireland's best known historian and the author of numerous important works on Irish history, including Michael Collins and The IRA, published to wide acclaim. The former editor of The Irish Press, he lives in Dublin, Ireland.
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