• First scholarly study of the role of the Irish Catholic Church in the Great Famine.
• Valuable contribution to the debate on Church/State relations in Ireland.
• By a leading historian of 19th-century Anglo-Irish relations.

Readership: Scholars and students of modern British and Irish history; nineteeth-century religious and political historians.

Donal A. Kerr, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth

"'a work of consummate scholarship and masterly presentation'" - Bullan

"'Its strengths lie in its solid scholasticism and its author'senviable and incisive grasp of rich primary sources'" - Fortnight Magazine