Edward G Lengel The Irish between the sides of British Eyes: Perceptions of Ireland in the Famine Era.

Edward G Lengel The Irish between the sides of British Eyes: Perceptions of Ireland in the Famine Era. Westport, Conn: Praeger. 2002 Pp xi, 185 $6495 ISBN 0-275-97634-3

Edward Lengel's Ireland by the agency of British Eyes focuses on the period 1840 to 1860 and associates two important controversies in nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish relations. Lengel examines the change in British attitudes and the drift on policy toward Ireland, principally the discontinuance of direct relief at the height of the potato famine crisis in 1847 and the origins of widely-adopted Victorian characterizations of

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