Paddy's Lament
, by Gallagher, Thomas- ISBN: 9780156707008 | 0156707004
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/1/1987
Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was threatened. Index.