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Thierry Robin, « Cian T. McMahon, The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine », Études irlandaises, ID : 10.4000/etudesirlandaises.12144
The Great Irish Famine has long sparked a plethora of highly sensitive debates as to the actual numbers of fatalities and as to the real more or less concerted responsibilities lying behind one of the worst tragedies that occurred in Europe in the 19th century. As often noted, this catastrophe happened right in the middle of one of the wealthiest, most powerful empires that human history had ever known so far: the British Empire. As for now, retrospectively the coffin ship mentioned in the ti...