Anybody interested in the details of the migrations really should get hold of Terry Coleman's seminal work on the subject 'Passage to America' - he's done as excellent study of the subject as his did on the Navvies - indispensable.
As excellent as Mrs Woodham Smith's book is, it if far too thinly spread to be relied on for detail.
Keith has told us she is a "revisionist" so nothing she wrote can be trusted anyway - and he should know!!
A quote from Coleman's book from a contemporary source:
"Before the emigrant has been a week at sea he is an altered man. How can it be otherwise? Hundreds of poor people, men, women, and children, of all ages, from the drivelling idiot of ninety to the babe just born, huddled together without light, without air. wallowing in filth and breathing a fetid atmosphere, sick in body, dispirited in heart, the fevered patients lying between the sound, in sleeping places so narrow as almost to deny them the power of indulging, by a change of position, the natural restlessness of the disease; by their agonized ravings disturbing those around, and predisposing them, through the effects of the imagination, to imbibe the contagion; living without food or medicine, except as administered by the hand of casual charity,dying without the voice of spiritual consolation, and buried in the deep without the rites of the church."
Coleman devotes an entire chapter to the brutal treatment meted out by the ships crews to Emigrants.

"That is the truth and you can not deny it."
You have never read a single book by a single historian so you cannot possibly know what any of their opinions are - you cannot deny that
I can deny what I choose and you would have no grounds for contradiction other than your pre-conceived bigotry.
Interesting that Kinealy has now been relegated to a "minority" rather than in the hallowed ranks of your "all historians" though - amazing what the presentation of a few facts can do.
Go read a book
Jim Carroll