![]() ![]() ![]() She was appointed CBE in 1960, and received honorary doctorates from the National University of Ireland and the University of St. Brogan.Ībout the Author Cecil Blanche Woodman-Smith was a British historian and author of popular history books on the Victorian era, including The Great Hunger, Queen Victoria, The Reason Why, and Thin Men of Hadda. The Great Hunger is the definitive account of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Never call me a novelist: Cecil Woodham-Smith and the making of the Great Hunger - Christine Kinealy (Quinnipiac University). It explains much in modern Ireland - and in modern America' D.W. It combines great literary power with great learning. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ![]() ![]() The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. 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. Book Synopsis 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. ![]()
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