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The Great Irish Famine:1846-1851
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WHY DID IRELAND STARVE?
The Great Irish Famine is a new and comprehensive account of one of the nineteenth century’s deadliest humanitarian catastrophes. Between 1846 and 1851, more than a million people starved while another million emigrated.
Fabrice Bensimon and Laurent Colantonio draw on the latest research to tell the story of the Famine and its legacy. They explore Ireland’s subordination to Britain. London responded to the potato blight with policies born of a deadly combination of laissez-faire political economy, Malthusianism, providentialist belief and entrenched anti-Irish prejudice. Bensimon and Colantonio foreground the lived experience of Famine victims. Innovative and accessible, this will become an essential reference for students and general readers of Irish and British history.
With a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Reviews
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Interdisciplinary, learned, lively … a rich and distinctive addition
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An outstanding survey of the Great Irish Famine and its historiography. The authors discuss the major issues and controversies clearly and compellingly. I would recommend it to readers familiar with the Famine as well as to newcomers
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The Great Irish Famine skilfully unpicks the contested histories of the tragic years 1845–49, years which have shaped Irish and diasporic nationalisms as well as British ‘forgettings’, and which live on in collective myths and memories