The Irish Famine: A Documentary

This unique volume, comprising Colm Toibin's acclaimed short text and a linked collection of key documents put together by one of Ireland's leading younger historians, offers a many-sided view of one of history's most poignant and far-reaching catastrophes.

This book will allow the reader to understand the complex way in which the fragmentary past is both available to us, and yet distant from us. We get those insights from Toibin's brilliant short overview and from a rich collection of documents - government papers, recipes, journalism, letters, statistics and personal statements, all linked so the book can be read as a whole.