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The great hunger

Ireland 1845-1849

by Cecil Blanche Fitz Gerald Woodham Smith, Cecil W. Smith, Cecil Woodham Smith

1962 510 pages eng

The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation; emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada. Most emigrant ships were small, ill-equipped, dangerousl…

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