Erasures
Colm Tóibín: The Great Irish Famine, 30 July 1998
“... historians are afraid to approach and others, who come to wildly different conclusions, only too ready to entertain.For any historian writing about Ireland in 1847 there is another problem: the copious documentary evidence about public policy and the administration of relief (or, indeed, its withholding) generated by those in charge, and the paucity of ... ”