Ireland 1847

Edmund Richards, Quaker, Erris “I saw families who had subsisted for weeks on the flesh of horses that had died; and people numberless in all the stages of starvation, down to that of the last stage of life; and many corpses in the act of being deposited in the earth.” Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine, 100 images, 472 eye witness quotes: http://www.jerrymulvihill.com

The Truth Behind The Irish Famine by Jerry Mulvihill

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