The Great Hunger

The Great Hungerby Cecil Woodham Smith "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. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British obtuseness, short sightedness and ignorance and stubborn commitment to laissez faire solutions largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The

thus beating Columbus to the New World by almost a thousand years

"Brian is the smallest boy in the village

Possibly the best known is brown bread - unique to every cook - the recipe often a closely guarded secret

the hopes of Thomas MacDonagh and John MacBride

Among Celts

and good fortune across your threshold

These boats were the traditional fishing boats of Galway Bay especially designed to be able to sail in rough seas as well as shallow waters

luxury soft pure lambswool baby blanket

and Killarney engraved on a removable drinking cup and a shamrock in the middle

apprenticed to a doctor

Philip Freeman brings the historic Patrick and his world vividly to life

the inclusion of new transcriptions of contemporary 16th-century manuscript material