The Lumper Potato and the Famine (1:1)
Cormac Ó Gráda The Lumper IndictedSeveral recent contributions to pre-famine Irish economic history have drawn attention to the apparent contrast between the abject poverty of the Irish masses and their relatively high nutritional status. Poverty, they argue, was mitigated by a potato-dominated diet which, while monotonous, was adequate in terms of calories and protein. Modern … Read more