March 26, 1999

'Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory'

By NINA C. AYOUB

Did England sleep while Ireland starved? The famous question is inevitable in any study of the great potato blight of the 1840s that led to the deaths of a million Irish and the emigration of a million more.

Cormac O Grada, a professor of economics at University College, Dublin, sharply criticizes those who bandy the term genocide about. Genocide implies intent, and he

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