I love when you read two different books on the same events and you immediately pick up on the bias each other has. When I reviewed Padraic X. Scanlan’s Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine, Scanlan held that the most Ireland could possibly blame England for was “misguided politics”; Kelly holds that the political decisions were the least they could be blamed for.Kelly also went far further into Irish history and culture, as well as the emigrant experience upon leaving Ireland, and how […]