The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many ...

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By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

The great Irish writer Fintan O’Toole has a new review of another fantastic book on the Irish famine, or An Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger. Rot, by historian Padraic X. Scanlan, adds to the ...

Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.