The End of Hidden Ireland

Ths book, a beautifully written tour de force, will quickly establish itself as THE work on the Irish peasantry and the great emigration. Through imaginative use of sources and with exquisite description, Scally traces the emigration of an entire village at the time of the Great Famine from their home, through Liverpool and to America. This is a richly textured analysis of Irish society `from the bottom up' which stresses changing mentalits more than any previous study of Ireland in this period.