![]() ![]() It’s no surprise that the famed Irish historian has at last settled himself upon the Blight as his next subject. ![]() ![]() Nowhere does one feel this pain more acutely then within the pages of Tim Pat Coogan’s most recent history “The Famine Plot,” which sets forth to describe “honestly, without either malice or cap touching, how forbears died.” “That one million people should have died in what was then part of the richest and most powerful nation in the world is something that still causes pain as we reflect on it today,” the prime minister said. In 1996, Tony Blair issued the first apology on behalf of the British authorities for the part they played in Ireland’s 1846 through 1851 famine. ![]()
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