Paddy's Lament by Thomas Gallagher
Paddy's Lament

Thomas Gallagher

Paddy's Lament

Thomas Gallagher

345 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland w...

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