The Great Famine and its interpreters, old and new

by James S. Donnelly, Jr For revisionist historians the publication in 1962 of The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849  by Cecil Woodham-Smith was not an altogether welcome event. Perhaps they envied the book's commercial success: The Great Hunger  was immediately a best-seller on two continents, and its premier status as the most widely read Irish history ... Read more

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