Before the Royal Birth - Victoria & the Irish famines

[James Neary]

To quote Queen Victoria's advisor Nassau Senior "The famine will kill 
1 million Irish. That is scarcely enough to do any good".

To quote Charles Trevelyan "The evil to be contended with is not the 
famine itself, but the evil moral character of the people. The famine 
must not be too much mitigated".

>There are a number of books available written by various authors/historians.
>One by an Englishwoman, albeit it, that her family was Fitzgerald, 
>wrote a comprehensive book on the Famine called" The Great Hunger"
>"The Famine in Mayo" compiled and edited by Ivor Hamrock , a Mayo 
>County Library publication 154 pg.
>"Ireland her Own" by T. A. Jackson (English Marxist) Chapter 17.pub 1947.
>"Paddy's Lament" Ireland 1846-1847. Thomas Gallagher 1982 345 pg.
>"Famine" Liam O'Flaherty 1979 Wolfhound Press  448 pg Novel

http://irishhungercomm.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/genocide-as-part-of-school-curriculum/