However, no people were as heavily dependent on the potato as the Irish. Scanlan starkly figures the inevitable disaster: Between 1845 and 1851, at least 1 million people died of famine-related ...

Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine.

are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish history. The Great Famine (1845 to 1852) saw the death of around a million people and the forced emigration of a similar number. At the time ...

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Afterwards, my mother, aunt and eventually my grandmother all left Belfast for England. They were not only leaving the ...

The author sees obvious parallels between the policies of the British government in its treatment of Irish peasants during The Great Famine (1845-1849) and modern Medicaid work requirements in the ...

This dilapidated mansion was once the secret HQ of one of the British army’s most controversial uncover units during the ...

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He discovered his identity as an Irish nationalist after less than three years in Boston and in 1845 returned to the ... The potato famine had exposed grave socio-economic realities and the ...