Dublin Zoo: An Illustrated History, by Catherine de Courcy is lavishly illustrated with lovely photographs of animals and people – and her text is peppered with interesting stories. What happened to the zoo in the Famine years? Food was scarcer, but only a black bear died from want of it. There were other deaths then, too, but they were by mischance; an African eagle died when the roof of his cage blew off in a high wind, and an Egyptian goose that strayed into the bear’s cage died as a result

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