Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible. In this grand, sweeping narrative, Irelands best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan. In what The Boston Globe calls 'his greatest achievement,' Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or. 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 their bodies.' In this sweeping history Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. Full Synopsis During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. This is easier to argue if, as Coogan does, you do not present a sequential narrative.During 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. In this sweeping history, Irelands best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. But Coogan takes the argument a step further and argues that British policy, as carried out by the Whig government and the senior civil servant Sir Charles Trevelyan, represented an act of deliberate genocide. John Kelly’s The Graves are Walking: The History of the Great Irish Famine reflects this school of thought. 27, 2012 Acclaimed Irish historian Coogan ( Ireland in the Twentieth Century, 2004, etc.) opens up the truth about the Irish potato famine, and it’s uglier than you thought. The dominant academic consensus is highly critical of British policy during the Irish Famine of 1845–52 – its moralism, its doctrinaire adherence to the norms of political economy, and (particularly in the later stages of the Famine) compassion fatigue bordering on indifference. THE FAMINE PLOT ENGLAND'S ROLE IN IRELAND'S GREATEST TRAGEDY by Tim Pat Coogan RELEASE DATE: Nov.

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