Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred
- ISBN-10
- 0156707004
- ISBN-13
- 9780156707008
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 345
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Thomas Gallagher
Description
Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was threatened. Index.
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