The Famine Plot Home and Welcome “A story told with clear-eyed

“A story told with clear-eyed compassion and quiet intelligence about what it is to grow up and grow away

there's the Blarney Stone to kiss for eloquence

Made in Dublin

Lullaby of London

with no beginning and no end

The Famine Plot Home and Welcome “A story told with clear-eyedBy Tim Pat Coogan "During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this sweeping history Ireland's best known