The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy-Tim Pat Coogan

The Famine Plot\nby Tim Pat Coogan\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Tim Pat Coogan\nTitle: The Famine Plot\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781137278838\nISBN-10: 1137278838\nRRP: \u00A311.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nDuring a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland''s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, you could walk dry shod to America on .