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'Absorbing first-person accounts of the hardship and also the heroism that occurred in Co. Kerry during Ireland's Great Famine of the1840s bring the period to life. Bryan MacMahon focuses on human stories rather than statistics as he depicts the unprecedented events, upheavals and challenges of the famine years through the eyes of those who were there and reveals information which has lain hidden and untapped.
This is the first detailed account of the tragedy of the Great Famine, An Gorta Mór, in the Dingle peninsula, Corca Dhuibhne.
Bryan MacMahon uncovers a wealth of archival detail, enabling readers to experience the impact of the Famine through the graphic and deeply moving accounts of eyewitnesses. The book is a record of the events of ‘Black 47’ and it chronicles the trauma of the desperate years that followed - an drochshaol.
The controversy of the title refers to the passionate debates and divisions incited by the success of the Protestant conversion campaign in Corca Dhuibhne, whose leaders played a crucial humanitarian role in providing Famine relief. Robust sectarian jousting between Catholic and Protestant clergymen continued until the mid-1850s and echoes of the conflict rippled on into the twentieth century.
