The Great Hunger, in 19th-century Ireland was one of the great human tragedies of modern times.
Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse.
At the same time, acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands and caused hardship and distress there.
John Donald Publishers Ltd Great highland famine. hunger, emigration and the scottish highlands in the nineteenth century, paperback/tom m. devine
