The Pacific Northwest Inlander9d
It’s an epic story never to forget: The downtrodden, exploited Irish were left to die, yet some found a way to survive
In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...
The New Yorker12d
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
In the first act of the wittiest Irish play ... the minutiae of the famine as an official report of the British Parliament. The two-volume work is called the “Tables of Deaths.” ...
The Leadville Herald2d
The Irish of Leadville: Looking back at the mining strikes in the 1880s
In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...
IrishCentral9d
The heroic bishop who gave his life while tending to Irish Famine victims in Canada
The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...
Irish Central2y
Great Hunger
Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...
The Irish Times7d
Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X Scanlan - Interesting and new takes, and much to debate
Reflecting on the outcome of the crisis, he is cold: “Arising from death ... kingdoms”, Ireland was not governed as if it were as British as Finchley. And during the Famine “the legacies ...