Rot is not concerned with individual culpability ... to the horror that overwhelmed Ireland in the mid-1800s and no big book tells the story better than Cecil Woodham-Smith’s The Great Hunger ...

Scanlan shows in “Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine ... has written widely on the histories of imperialism and slavery. His new book begins by throwing light on Ireland’s ...

His writing has been published in the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and the New Inquiry. Rot is his third book.