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Irish Coffin Ships at Gross Isle, Canada | Robert Whtye – 1847” On deck, a rope was placed around the emaciated Irish peasant. The rope was hoisted and with their heads and naked limbs dangling for a moment in mid-air, the wealth of hair of the Irish maiden, or the silvered locks of the poor old Irish grandmother, they were finally lowered over the ship’s side into the boats, rowed to the island and left on the rock s until such time as they were coffined. The scenes of horror and desolation at the island almost staggered belief and baffled description.” Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine, 100 images, 400 eyewitness quotes. www.jerrymulvihill.com

Ireland 1845-52 | Thomas Gallagher “Passing a country churchyard, he saw in the twilight a stooped figure moving amongst the graves. Thinking that someone was taking the old coffins as firewood or otherwise desecrating the dead, he strolled in and, placing a hand on her shoulder, asked an emaciated woman sternly, ‘what are you doing here?’ ‘Oh sir’ she said ‘my children are starving and the nettles grow so nicely here. I take them at night unnoticed’.” Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine. 72 paintings, 400 eyewitness quotes: www.jerrymulvihill.com #irishhistory #ireland

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Ireland 1847 | Emigration ship across the Atlantic. Robert Whyte “I spent a considerable part of the day watching sharks that followed in our wake with great constancy... the mate said it was a certain forerunner of death. The Triton lost 136 passengers on the voyage. All these were thrown overboard and buried in the Atlantic.” Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine, 72 paintings, 400 eye witness quotes: www.jerrymulvihill.com

Ireland 1849 | Sidney Osborne: “The gallows in Ireland were familiar and ever present features in front of every jailhouse - no higher from the ground than an ordinary second-floor. Unlike England, they were in Ireland permanent fixtures - balconies with their fallen floors still hanging down from the last execution for all Irish Catholics to see and contemplate. About 10 feet above each trapdoor was a horizontal iron beam from the end of which hung a large iron cast of a skull.” Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine. 72 paintings, 400 eyewitness quotes: www.jerrymulvihill.com

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