Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847

Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847
Author: Thomas Gallagher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780156707008

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.