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John Percival (Author), Ian Gibson (Foreword). I found this book interesting. One thing that most people don't know about the Irish Potato Famine is just how much the British Government is to blame for all those deaths

John Percival (Author), Ian Gibson (Foreword). One thing that most people don't know about the Irish Potato Famine is just how much the British Government is to blame for all those deaths. Any food that an Irish person had in their possession was seized and then shipped to England and other countries. This is the dirty little secret of the British Government.

The Great Famine book. The author, John Percival, does a nice job discussing the The Great Famine of 1845-1851 resulted in the deaths of at least one million Irish. Ireland was dependent on the potato as the primary staple. The blight affected northern Europe as well but other areas weren't as dependent on the potato as their main source of nutrition. The famine was greatly excerbated but the lack of assistance by Great Britain. Britain provided assistance early in the famine but it was not sustained and never enough.

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Ian Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee.

Ian Gibson (born 21 April 1939) is an Irish author and Hispanist known for his biographies of the poet Antonio Machado, the artist Salvador Dalí, the bibliographer Henry Spencer Ashbee, the filmmaker Luis Buñuel. and particularly his work on the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, for which he won several awards, including the 1989 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography.

Percival's book is essential to a deeper understanding of "the Irish question" and the roots of the Troubles today. The Great Famine tells the story of this huge tragedy, from the social background to the famine in the impoverished Ireland of the day, through its devastating course as people died in their starving thousands, to its lasting legacy in fueling the Irish independence movement.

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