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A unique record of the Great Famine, written with insight, detachment and empathy. Based on a wide selection of sources - contemporary newspapers, official correspondence and diaries - it provides a graphic picture of conditions in the Irish countryside as the crisis developed. It combines analysis and an overview with a focus on the worst-hit areas. The relief efforts are presented where possible, frequently with the help of priests' letters, from the perspective of the poor.

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'This week-by-week account of the Famine years lends the immediacy of contemporary observation to the unfolding of the greatest human tragedy that ever touched our land.' - Irish Independent 'Brendan O'Cathaoir and his publisher are to be congratulated on bringing this diary - a most useful and accessible work of public remembrance on the most tragic period in Irish history - to readers in permanent form.' - Tipperary Historical Journal

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Brendan O'Cathaoir is a renowned historian and journalist. He is author if the Irish Times column Famine Diary upon which the book is based. He is also the biographer of John Blake Dillon: Young Irelander (1990), also published by IAP.

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