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The Irish Famine
de Peter Gray
Thames & Hudson, Ltd, 1995, 191 p. (New horizons)
During the famine of 1845–50 over one million of the Irish population died in a crop failure unprecedented in the history of modern Europe. Dependency on the potato as the main source of food brought widespread starvation and disease throughout Ireland and was followed by mass emigration to Britain, North America, Canada and Australia. A century and a half later, the famine is a catastrophe that has never been forgotten, a pivotal point in the destiny of modern Ireland.
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