Now finally comes The Famine Plot: England’s Role in Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy. The facts had never made a difference as to the truth of their demise, such as numbers as stiflingly affecting as up to twenty-five percent of a country’s population dead or dispersed. Even if two million of them perished of starvation and common disease, over a million more died jumping desperately into coffin ships. Paupers’ graves that for over 160 years have not been fully honored by truth nor been properly acknowledged. Where the weakest of the agrarian poor were communally laid in what are now mere humps of turf. Outside of Ennis, in County Clare in the west of Ireland, the wind kicks upon the hills under the same gray sky where once starved children, women and old men were buried callously, if not left by the ditches.
Enjoy! EAMON LOINGSIGH THE FAMINE PLOT: ENGLAND’S ROLE IN IRELAND’S GREATEST TRAGEDY BY TIM PAT COOGAN Unfortunately the site is closing down this week, so we though it would be a good idea to blog it here. The following book review appeared on BOOKSLUT, an edgy lit-blog for up and coming writers.
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