![]() ![]() When the potato crop failed, it hit Ireland worst.Ī catastrophe of a size which one can never exaggerate. ![]() She explains that the Irish people had been reduced to a state where they lived almost exclusively on the potato. Why did the failure of the potato prove so fatal in Ireland? When younger, she was involved in a number of semi-revolutionary societies. The book provides a history of the Irish famine the role the British government played.Ĭecil Woodham-Smith's ancestors came from the Fitzgerald family and she has always been very interested in her Irish roots. ![]() Cecil Woodham-Smith talks about her book on the great Irish famine.īritish historian Cecil Woodham-Smith explains how she came to write 'The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849' (1962). ![]()
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