This book traces the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It looks at what people ate and drank, and how thi

A concise analysis of one of the great disasters of Irish history.

Ireland in the 19th century was extraordinarily dependent on one crop - the potato. When that crop failed in 1845, it left one in eight Irish dead.

Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europ