Thursday Talk Sir Charles Trevelyan and the Irish Famine – the ‘Irish Cromwell’?

Charles Trevelyan of Wallington in Northumberland was a highly successful British Civil Servant. In Ireland he is however remembered as the man responsible for the relief of the ‘Great Hunger’ during which a million people died and even more fled abroad. Mike Fraser will assess Trevelyan’s role in what is regarded as the greatest disaster in nineteenth century Europe.