What is a good book about the Irish Potato Famine?

Question

What is a good book about the Irish Potato Famine?

Answer 1

Get a copy of "Trinity" by Leon Uris, it gives a fictional but very good decription of life and death during that time.

Answer 2

'The Great Irish Potato Famine' by James S. Donnelly is very good.

Also: 'The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 -1849' by Cecil Woodham-Smith is worth checking out.

Answer 3

The Great Hunger, Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Blanche Fitzgerald woodham-smith

Black Potatoes: The Story Of The Great Irish Famine 1845-1849 Susan Campbell-Bartoletti

The Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America by Edward Laxton

Answer 4

Colm Tóibín and Diarmaid Ferriter, The Irish Famine

Christine Kinealy, This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845 - 1852