What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly

What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly

by | Mar 20, 2025 | Archive, Homepage, Southern Partisan

In the first act of the wittiest Irish play of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde’s “Importance of Being Earnest,” there is much ado about a shortage of food. The fearsome Aunt Augusta is coming to tea, but we have watched the feckless Algernon eat all the cucumber...