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Irish Famine Books
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The Truth Behind The Irish Famine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 46 ratings — published
Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.60 — 81 ratings — published 2012
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,258 ratings — published 1962
Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.19 — 925 ratings — published 1982
The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,694 ratings — published 2012
This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845 - 52 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.73 — 56 ratings — published 1994
Sing, Wild Bird, Sing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.11 — 15,180 ratings — published 2023
The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,231 ratings — published 2012
Wild Irish Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.84 — 308 ratings — published 2001
Selected Short Stories of Liam O'Flaherty (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.00 — 117 ratings — published 1937
The Famine Orphans (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.21 — 361 ratings — published
The Dead House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.46 — 2,228 ratings — published 2017
Dirrayawadha (Audiobook)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.02 — 555 ratings — published 2024
True Irish Ghost Stories (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.36 — 1,464 ratings — published
Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Cormac O Grada (2006-12-13)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.83 — 6,230 ratings — published 1993
Victoria and Albert - A Royal Love Affair: Official companion to the ITV series (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,213 ratings — published 2017
Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.05 — 525 ratings — published 1937
Clans and Families of Ireland: The Heritage and Heraldry of Irish Clans and Families (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 1993
The Letter Home (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,650 ratings — published 2022
The Irishman's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,947 ratings — published 2019
Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,643 ratings — published 1990
Famine: Galway's Darkest Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.13 — 15 ratings — published 2011
Find Him Guilty (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Wonder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.65 — 90,529 ratings — published 2016
Desolation: The Story of the Irish Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1869
Great Famine: Ireland's Potato Famine 1845 - 51 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.97 — 35 ratings — published 1995
Beyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845–1910 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.18 — 11 ratings — published 2010
The hanging gale (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published
The Irish Peasant; a Sociological Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1892
The Great Irish Famine: A History in Four Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.65 — 81 ratings — published 2012
Ireland Since the Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.93 — 67 ratings — published 1973
The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.77 — 350 ratings — published 1997
Exile Emigration and Irish Writing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2002
The Eternal Paddy: Irish Identity and the British Press, 1798–1882 (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 4.22 — 27 ratings — published 2004
The Great Irish Famine (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.58 — 62 ratings — published 1995
Three Famines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as irish-famine)
avg rating 3.47 — 190 ratings — published 2010
“The Irish moral economy was only as old as the potato itself—it was not an ancient way of life but an adaptation to conquest and capitalism. The potatoes given as charity during the day were sometimes stolen back at night. A poor farmer taking conacre was expected to give potatoes without an eye on his own inventory, but widespread theft of potatoes shows that open-handed generosity could have been genuine but could also have been an act to save face and preserve a good name. Or it could have been both. Human beings struggle with contradiction far less than the social sciences predict. [...] The gift economy of the potato was both beyond the market and profoundly influenced by market pressures—for land, for food security, and for rent.”
― Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
― Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
“Stuck In One's Craw by Stewart Stafford
Nobody's beeswax,' still, you nosily ask:
'Is it the last supper to eat that fast?'
Try blackened potato skin's bitter taste,
A heritage of hunger's grim, gaunt waste.
From Celtic mist, this heir apparent,
My grandparent's grandparent(s),
Survived Ireland's holocaust famine,
As a local catch, not New World salmon.
Crop blight drove their starving plea,
With lots cast bleak to die or flee
Genetic appetite fed the strongest,
Those who eat fastest live longest.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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Nobody's beeswax,' still, you nosily ask:
'Is it the last supper to eat that fast?'
Try blackened potato skin's bitter taste,
A heritage of hunger's grim, gaunt waste.
From Celtic mist, this heir apparent,
My grandparent's grandparent(s),
Survived Ireland's holocaust famine,
As a local catch, not New World salmon.
Crop blight drove their starving plea,
With lots cast bleak to die or flee
Genetic appetite fed the strongest,
Those who eat fastest live longest.
© 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
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