num_pages: 510
description: "A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland - and in modern America." - D. W. BroganThe story of the famine of the 1840's which killed a million Irish peasants, sent hundred of thousands to the New World, and influenced history down to the present day.
language: English
title: The Great Hunger
titlecomplete: The Great Hunger
genres: Ireland, Historical, European History, Nonfiction, Audiobook, World History, Classics, 19th Century, Irish Literature, History
ratings_count: 1127
places: Ireland
publisher: E. P. Dutton