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Article: The Irish Through British Eyes: Perceptions of Ireland in the Famine Era.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2003
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Edward G. Lengel. The Irish Through British Eyes: Perceptions of Ireland in the Famine Era. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2002. Pp. xi, 185. $64.95. ISBN 0-275-97634-3.
Edward Lengel's Ireland through British Eyes focuses on the period 1840 to 1860 and connects two important controversies in nineteenth-century Anglo-Irish relations. Lengel examines the change in British attitudes and the effect 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 the Irish that are documented in L. P. Curtis's Anglo-Saxons and Celts: A Study of ...