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Mapping the Great Irish Famine: A Survey of the Famine Decade.(Review)
Ireland's varied topography, settlement patterns, and geology make maps a particular revealing and interesting, but under-exploited, tool for its historians. Mapping the Great Irish Famine: A Survey of the Famine Decade, by Liam Kennedy, Paul S. Ell, E. M. Crawford and L. A. Clarkson (Dublin: Four Courts E; pp. 220. IR 40 [pounds sterling]; pb. IR 19.95 [pounds sterling]), makes the point. Arriving in the wake of a torrent of books marking the sesquicentennial of the Great Irish Famine, Liam Kennedy and his co-authors from Queen's University, Belfast, have nevertheless managed to offer some new perspectives and vantage-points. Maps accompanying the great Irish population …
