John kelly is one of americas great historians and storytellers he has a new one out now the essential the graves are walking its a brilliantly rendered account of the great irish potato famine of the 1840s the prose sizzles with deep intelligence hard research and an inspiring compassion for the millions who died of hunger. John kelly is one of americas great historians and storytellers he has a new one out now the essential the graves are walking its a brilliantly rendered account of the great irish potato famine of the 1840s the prose sizzles with deep intelligence hard research and an inspiring compassion for the millions who died of hunger. John kelly is one of americas great historians and storytellers he has a new one out now the essential the graves are walking its a brilliantly rendered account of the great irish potato famine of the 1840s the prose sizzles with deep intelligence hard research and an inspiring compassion for the millions who died of hunger. The graves are walking the great famine and the saga of the irish people was a well researched and documented history of the irish potato famine beginning in 1845 when a fungus like organism spread rapidly throughout ireland and ran rampant over the next several years causing suffering and death throughout ireland john kelly documents all facets of this suffering from the accounts of the families that are impacted to the government entities that so dramatically failed these people. John kelly gives heartbreaking detail to the great famine that seared itself into the memory