![]() ![]() Historian AJP Taylor also read the book as clear evidence for “genocide”, claiming that during the famine “all Ireland was a Belsen”. Her enduring classic, fumed Irish novelist Frank O’Connor, was proof that the British authorities were guilty of “murder unlimited” in their treatment of the Irish: why had she not said as much? O’Connor laced his remarks with references to ‘Charles Eichmann-Trevelyan’ (for Charles Trevelyan, Treasury undersecretary) and Dachau. Coogan’s new work recalls a time, half a century ago, when Cecil Woodham-Smith, author of The Great Hunger, was berated for not calling a spade a spade. ![]() Unravelling a plot means identifying the guilty party. Tim Pat Coogan’s The Famine Plot is about a far more sinister conspiracy theory. Until now, ‘famine plot’ was an obscure term linked to the history of food shortages in pre-revolutionary France. ![]()
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