The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable.
82 pages including index. In this book it recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North /Carolina and challenging obstacles they encountered along the way. View More...
Here is the whole saga of the Irish from earliest times to the present. Learn about Irish history, culture, religion, laws, arts, antiquities, folklore, trade, literature, heroes, and more. Although a work of sound scholarship, it is as easy to read as a superb novel.
