Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti – recommended by Georgia Beaverson via Google+.The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham Smith - recommended by Kerry Dexter/Felicity Hayes-McCoy/R L Larking via Twitter and Nancy Curtis Caramanico via Facebook.Yet, it is also the period in which many of the Irish diaspora recognize as their family’s direct ties to Ireland… making the period an important part of their personal history.įor book suggestions, I asked our readers to peek into their personal libraries and give a shout out to the books they’d recommend in both fiction and non-fiction… A million died and another million emigrated… quite a grim time in Irish history. Ireland suffered more than one famine in its history, but the years between 18 mark the era many call the Irish Potato Famine.
Skibbereen 1847 by Cork artist James Mahony (1810–1879), commissioned by Illustrated London News – via Wikipediaĭo you have any recommendations for a good book on the potato famine?
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