Ireland's Famine in the 1840's, caused by potato blight, resulted in the loss of approximately a quarter of its population through death and mass emigration - the latter of which was encouraged by the British Government. Coogan posits the suggestion that a natural disaster was seen by those in power as a solution to the poverty of the masses and therefore were guilty of genocide. Well researched and totally absorbing - no doubt the jury is out!
(Lynda Johnson - bwl 101 Summer 2021 ) |
