The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the
nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass
emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Grada's concise survey
suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires an
analysis of the Irish economy before the invasion of the
potato-killing fungus, Phytophthora infestans, highlighting Irish
poverty and the importance of the potato, but also finding signs of
economic progress before the Famine. Despite the massive decline in
availability of food, the huge death toll of one million (from a
population of 8.5 million) was hardly inevitable; there are grounds
for supporting the view that a less doctrinaire attitude to famine
relief would have saved many lives. This book provides an
up-to-date introduction by a leading expert to an event of major
importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and
Britain.
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