Ireland is in your hands, in your power. If you do not save her, she cannot save herself. I solemnly call upon you to recollect that I predict with the sincerest conviction that a quarter of her population will perish unless you come to her relief.
Daniel O'Connell to the British House of Commons, 1847.

Introduction Before the Famine The Blight Begins The Great Hunger Coffin Ships Financial Ruin Gone to America After the Famine Author/Bibliography

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