Ireland’s top writers moved from the page to the stage in style to accept prizes at the 2012 Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards at the RDS.

The Atlas of the Great Irish Famine is one of the most comprehensive studies of the greatest catastrophe in modern Irish history. One of its editors, William J Smyth, examines the scale of the disaster and the rationale behind the project: Trying to understand the Famine’s contemporary impact and how profoundly it shaped today’s Ireland

This wonderful atlas has been updated to reflect the madness of the Celtic Tiger decade. William J Smyth is impressed by the results