The Irish Famine: A Documentary

By: Colm T—ib’n

Published September 30th 2004 by Profile Books (first published 1999)

Category: Business

Pages: 222 pages

ISBN: 9781861974600

Description:

This unique volume, comprising Colm T—ib’n's acclaimed short text and a linked collection of key documents put together by one of Ireland's leading younger historians, offers a many-sided view of one's of history's most poignant and far-reaching catastrophes. This book will allow the reader to understand the complex way in which the fragmentary past is both available to us ... and distant from us.' We get those insights from T—ib’n's short history and from a rich collection of documents -- government papers, recipes, journalism, letters, statistics, personal statements, all linked so the book can be read as a whole.