Lyons called attention in Irish Historical Studies to a striking aspect of the popular response: Vigorously protesting against this ‘torrent of muddled thinking’, the late F.S.L. Perhaps they envied the book’s commercial success: The Great Hunger was immediately a best-seller on two continents, and its premier status as the most widely read Irish history book of all time has only grown with the years.īut far more troubling to the revisionists was the ‘ungoverned passion’ to which numerous reviewers of the book succumbed. Published in Features, Issue 3 (Autumn 1993), The Famine, Volume 1įor revisionist historians the publication in 1962 of The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith was not an altogether welcome event. The Great Famine and its interpreters, old and new
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