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Thread #151520   Message #3728348
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
05-Aug-15 - 09:24 AM
Thread Name: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
Subject: RE: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
Same link,

"The charge of genocide is rejected in three other books published in a rich period for monographs on the subject: John Kelly's The Graves Are Walking; Enda Delaney's The Curse of Reason; and – most ambitious of all – the multi-authored Atlas of the Great Irish Famine. "

"Coogan rounds up the
usual suspects, but the mortality was neither calculated nor premeditated. In legal parlance, there might be a case for charges of 'manslaughter' or 'wilful neglect' against Wood et al, but the case for premeditated 'murder' is unproven."