![]() ![]() Much of this is taken up with self-important Sirs exchange long-winded correspondence with Lords, Dukes and Earls and other members of the aristocracy, their words and behaviour wavering between total ignorance and blind indifference, as the people of their nation starve to death. I thought it was accounts from people who had endured the famine, but this is actually a series of reports, letters, articles, statistics, findings and other official documents sent during the Irish Famine.ĭue to the era this does have a rather prolix Victorian feel to it, that does not really make for great casual reading, but then neither it should, it’s a serious subject. I picked this up on a whim, with only a cursory look at the description and this didn’t turn out to be the book I thought it was. ![]()
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