The Mercier Press Ltd

A fascinating play about a mans greed for land.

Irish landscapes - before and after the Famine, Kevin Wheelan; politics in Famine Ireland, Sean Connelly; Irish famines before the Great Famine, David Dickson; food and famine, Margaret Crawford; disease and death, Lawrence Geery; inside the mind of government, Peter Grey; the Poor Laws, Christine Kinealy; relief schemes, Mary Daly; the stigma of souperism, Irene Wheelan; evictions and clearances, Jim Donnelly; emigration and the social order, David Fitzpatrick; the persistence of famine, Tim O'Neil; folk memory and the Famine, Cathal Poirteir; the Great Famine - today's Famine, Cormac O'Grada; famine in West Cork, Fr Patrick Hickey.

The Irish Writers series is a collection of\r\nbiographies of the lives of some of the remarkable people who have given\r\nIreland its rich cultural heritage.