A girl plagued by dark dreams, who holds the key to their return to the Land of light. And a curse is put on Lumatere, which traps those caught inside and forces thousands of others to roam the land as exiles, dying of fever and persecution in foreign camps.īut ten years later Finnikin is led to another rock to meet the young novice, Evanjalin. Until the ‘five days of the unspeakable’, when the King and Queen and their children are slaughtered in the palace. And so he stands on the rock of three wonders with his childhood friend Prince Balthazar and the prince’s cousin, Lucian, and together they mix their blood. “Be prepared for the worst, my love, for it lives next door to the best.”Īt the age of nine, Finnikin is warned by the gods that he must sacrifice a pound of flesh in order to save the royal house of his homeland, Lumatere.
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Lyons called attention in Irish Historical Studies to a striking aspect of the popular response: Vigorously protesting against this ‘torrent of muddled thinking’, the late F.S.L. Perhaps they envied the book’s commercial success: The Great Hunger was immediately a best-seller on two continents, and its premier status as the most widely read Irish history book of all time has only grown with the years.īut far more troubling to the revisionists was the ‘ungoverned passion’ to which numerous reviewers of the book succumbed. Published in Features, Issue 3 (Autumn 1993), The Famine, Volume 1įor revisionist historians the publication in 1962 of The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith was not an altogether welcome event. 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