The story begins in the autumn of 1846, with Lorraine, her parents, and little brother Paddy being cautiously optimistic about a good potato crop-desperately needed after the blight caused last year’s crop to rot. In this book, we see the dreadful famine through the eyes of twelve-year-old Lorraine, the daughter of a tenant farmer. It is estimated that death and emigration caused the population of Ireland to drop between 20% to 25%, overall. Twice that number is estimated to have emigrated to America and other countries in an effort to escape certain death. Hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation and disease during this terrible time. Hunger: A Tale of Courage is set in western Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine of 1846, a time when a potato blight ruined the main source of food for Irish families.
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