""A Twelve Months' Residence in Ireland: During the Famine and the Public Works, 1846 and 1847"" is a book written by William Henry Smith and published in 1848. The book is a firsthand account of the author's experiences living in Ireland during the Great Famine of the mid-19th century. Smith was a British civil servant and he spent a year in Ireland overseeing the implementation of public works projects designed to alleviate the suffering caused...