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Apparitions of Death and Disease
This essay provides an overview of the devastating period in Irish history that is simply remembered as the 'Great Hunger'. Christine Kinealy provides a chronology of the Famine, examines the causes and consequences of this tragedy, and asks how could a famine of this magnitude occur at the center of the British Empire? Why did Ireland starve?--Back cover.
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