The New Yorker9d
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...
Independent.ie3d
Economics, markets and morality – why the failure of the potato was only one cause of the Famine
Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...
RTÉ Ireland3d
Indigenous Canadian famine aid was 'hidden in plain sight'
Donations to Irish people from indigenous communities in Canada during the Great Famine - valued at around €12,000 today - ...
IrishCentral7d
The heroic bishop who gave his life while tending to Irish Famine victims in Canada
The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...
The Irish Times5d
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan - Interesting and new takes, and much to debate
Great Famine and Irish independence struggle linked by geography ... If Captain Moonlight was only hurting his own people, one wonders why he was so popular. Towards the end of Rot, Scanlan ...