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 ...

Mr. Scanlan’s haunting and terrible book is undoubtedly a history title of the year. You say “potato”—but after reading “Rot, ...

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 ...