Cecil Woodham-Smith - The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 (1962)

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A totally unexpected development followed; the Queen and the Irish people fell in love with each other. The affection was brief, the participants unsuited, the episode soon forgotten and the course of history uninfluenced, but for a few days in August, 1849, the attraction was a reality.

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