The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was one of the great human tragedies of modern times. Almost a million perished and 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 misery, hardship and distress there. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told in this book.
Author Biography
Sir Tom Devine is the Sir William Fraser Professor Emeritus of Scottish History and Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author or editor of more that forty books on Scottish historical studies and related fields. The only historian to be knighted by HM The Queen 'for services to the study of Scottish history', he has been described by The Times newspaper 'as close to a national bard as the nation has'.
