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Title: Great Hunger: Ireland 18451849
Author: Cecil Woodham-Smith
Narrator: Frederick Davidson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 18 hrs 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2010-10-07
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: History, Europe
Publisher's Summary:
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 in small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus.
The Irish who managed to reach the United States alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work. They crowded into dirty cellars, begged, and took whatever employment they could get. Epidemics, riots, and chaos followed in their wake.
The Great Hunger is a heartbreaking story of suffering, insensitivity, and blundering stupidity; yet it is also an epic tale of courage, dignity, anddespite all oddsa hardly supportable optimism.
Mrs. Woodham-Smith has made an individual contribution to Irish history. Her thoroughness in research, compassionate fair-mindedness, and gift of narrative are all again in evidence.Times