Cathal Poirteir: 1 book

Book cover of Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

Famine Echoes – Folk Memories of the Great Irish Famine

An Oral History of Ireland’s Greatest Tragedy

by Cathal Poirteir
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995

Famine Echoes is a groundbreaking oral account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845–52, telling the stories of its victims for the first time ever in their own words and those of their descendants. ‘When the potato crop failed no other food was available and the people perished by the...
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