Re-examining blame for Ireland’s Great Famine in Padraic X Scanlan’s new book Rot

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Author Padraic X Scanlan examines the catastrophe

The failure of the potato crop led to devastating scenes across rural Ireland. Photo: Getty

‘Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many people, subjects of what was certainly the most powerful country on earth at the time, calls out for moral judgment.”

It does. What exactly that judgment is, is more complex.

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