Padraig Kirwan and LeAnne Howe on the generosity of the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations Blighted Nation tells the story of the Great Irish Famine from the arrival of the blight to the long ...

📜 Irish Potato Famine: The Young and the Old - Irish leaders entered the picture when the 1847 Poor Laws backfired, leading landowners to mass-evict their starving tenants. Daniel O'Connell ...

It was, possibly, the worst year of the Great Irish Famine. As the people of Ireland battled starvation, disease, and increasing evictions, the island’s 130 workhouses became the last refuge for ...

The Genealogy Club of Newtown will conduct its next meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, January 8, at 7 pm. The focus of the ...

With the potato crop destroyed ... in the area continue to call the dark period of Irish history "the Irish famine" or "the Great Hunger." In an attempt to commemorate a tragic event that changed ...

Indeed, there was a time during the Great Potato Famine of 1845-’52 when my ancestors endured conditions similar to Black enslaved people in America. Millions of Irish peasants starved even as ...

However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest ... Some people emigrated to Great Britain and Australia, but most emigrated to America. Image caption, Many Irish people emigrated and started ...

They are remembering the Irish Famine orphan girls sent here with the Earl Grey Scheme (1848-1850) – so called after the then secretary of state for the colonies, at the height of the Great ...