A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century-it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind-the Great Irish Potato Famine-conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortalityĭeeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions, John Kelly's retelling of the awful story of Ireland's great hunger will resonate today as history that speaks to our own times.
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