The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849

Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849. First Edition. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1962. Octavo. XII, 510 pages. With 19 illustrations and a map of Ireland in the 1840's, showing most of the places named in the book. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. The original dustjacket frayed but the Volume in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The illustrations in this publication include for example: Portrait of Sir Robert Peel / Portrait of Daniel O'Connell / Portrait of Sir Charles Trevelyan/ Portrait of Sir Charles Wood (Later 1st Viscount Halifax of Monk Bretton) / Famine Funeral at Skibbereen / The Central Soup Depot in Cork / A 'Scalpeen' at Dunmore / Portrait of Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle) / An Eviction / After the Eviction / Portrait of George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon / Portrait of William Smith O'Brien / Portrait of James Hack Tuke / Queen Victoria's Drawing-Room at the Castle, Dublin / Starving Children / The Queen's Departure / With two Appendice - Biographical accounts of Sir Charles Trevelyan / Sir Charles Wood / William Smith O'Brien / Including a very thorough chpater of references. The Story of the Potato Famine of the 1840's which killed one million Irish peasants and sent hundreds of thousands to the new world. This book is widely regarded as the classic account of the disaster. Woodham-Smith focuses on the tragedy in Ireland and the effect it had in America and Canada where many of the emigrants headed. This hardback American edition is now out of print.