The complete online text of The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine by William Carleton.

William Carleton was a storyteller first and last. Unlike other Irish literary nationalists of the nineteenth century, he did not look for his true subject in the distant past--in nostalgia or in the rich folklore and mythology of an ancient island cultu...

Black '47. Britain and the Famine Irish, by Frank Neal. London, Macmillan Ltd. and New York, St. Martin's Press, 1998. xv, 292 pp. $69.95 U.S. For the somewhat ghoulish sesquicentenary of the Great Famine, perhaps four dozen books appeared, some of them Ireland-wide...

Orange, Green and Black BLACK '47: BRITAIN AND THE FAMINE IRISH Frank Noel Macmillan Press 312 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-333-66595 3 'Why' someone asked lan Paisley, 'quarrel with Catholics? Aren't we all children of God?' 'We are not children of God,'...