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Book Review of The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 1849

The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 1849
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Pretty distressing reading. Heavy on the English Politics (the famine mixed with the Corn Law repeals), not much on the science of the potato blight. Not many heroes in this story. I ended up skimming the last pages, pretty depressing.