The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World by Thomas Keneally - recommended by Ruth Speir Kuehn via Facebook.Whitest Flower by Brendan Graham - recommended by Catherine Clarke via Twitter.Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly – for those looking for fiction - recommended by Kerry Dexter via Twitter.The Hungry Land by Michael Mullen - recommended by Mindie Burgoyne via Facebook.Irish Famine (Abrams Discoveries) by Peter Gray - recommended by Claudine X.Life on a Famine Ship: A Journal of the Irish Famine 1845-1850 by Duncan Crosbie - recommended by Guinness Tart via Facebook.Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti – recommended by Georgia Beaverson via Google+.

The Great Hunger: Ireland: 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham Smith - recommended by Kerry Dexter/Felicity Hayes-McCoy/R L Larking via Twitter and Nancy Curtis Caramanico via Facebook.Yet, it is also the period in which many of the Irish diaspora recognize as their family’s direct ties to Ireland… making the period an important part of their personal history.įor book suggestions, I asked our readers to peek into their personal libraries and give a shout out to the books they’d recommend in both fiction and non-fiction… A million died and another million emigrated… quite a grim time in Irish history. Ireland suffered more than one famine in its history, but the years between 18 mark the era many call the Irish Potato Famine. Skibbereen 1847 by Cork artist James Mahony (1810–1879), commissioned by Illustrated London News – via Wikipediaĭo you have any recommendations for a good book on the potato famine?

Life on a Famine Ship by Duncan Crosbie