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Niamh Gallagher: Ireland’s Great Famine, 20 November 2025

Rot: A History of the Irish Famine 
by Padraic X. Scanlan.
Little, Brown, 340 pp., £25, March, 978 1 4721 4687 8
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... structural inequalities compounded by the government’s disastrous short-term policies.Padraic Scanlan’s Rot: A History of the Irish Famine doesn’t seek to overturn this consensus but Scanlan’s central claim is in some ways an echo of Mitchel’s: although Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, it ...

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Christopher L. Brown: ‘Capitalism and Slavery’, 14 December 2023

Capitalism and Slavery 
by Eric Williams.
Penguin, 304 pp., £9.99, February 2022, 978 0 241 54816 5
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... emancipation. Capitalism and Slavery only scratched the surface of this subject, as recent work by Padraic Scanlan makes clear. But what mattered to Williams wasn’t so much individual motives as the more general point about economic interest. He called attention to the compromises, to the sometimes weak commitment to the cause among the abolitionist ...

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