![]() ![]() The Great Hunger is a heartbreaking story of suffering, insensitivity, and blundering stupidity yet it is also an epic tale of courage, dignity, and-despite all odds-a hardly supportable optimism. Epidemics, riots, and chaos followed in their wake. They crowded into dirty cellars, begged, and took whatever employment they could get. The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 Cecil Woodham-Smith Penguin Publishing Group, History - 528 pages 7 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. ![]() ![]() The Irish who managed to reach the United States alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work. Some ships never arrived those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus. Emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada in small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary ships. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. An 1849 depiction of Bridget ODonnell and her two children during the famine. The Great Hunger is the definitive account of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. ![]()
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