A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern ...

a blight that may be with us still. Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan Robinson/Basic Books £25/$32, 352 pages ...

Used frequently to accompany books, articles ... and survived, during Ireland's Famine years of 1845 - 1852. But the woman is not a mere symbol. She was a real person with a real story ...

Kinealy’s book is only one of a number of publications the academic has released on the famine and she is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on the subject. "The Irish Famine is an ...