Amazon.com description: Product Description: Leading historians, economists, and geographers from Ireland, Britain, and the U.S. assembled their material from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including medicine, folklore, and literature. The background and consequences of the disaster are fully documented. Contributors include Dr. Kevin Whelan, Professor Mary Daly, Professor James Donnelly, and Professor Cormac ó Gráda. This is the first major series of essays on the famine to be published in Ireland in almost fifty years. ""A heartbreaking account of a human tragedy whose passion bleeds through what might initially be dismissed as just another academic study"" - Publishers Weekly.