Tag: Famine

Bliain an Áir (Year of the Slaughter)

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The Irish Famine of 1740–1741, Bliain an Áir (Year of Slaughter), in Ireland was perhaps of similar magnitude, or equally destructive (in fact, it killed a greater percentage of the population in a shorter period of time) to the better-known An t-Ocras Mór of 1845–1852. An t-Ocras Mór where more than a million died in […]

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#OTD in 1845 – The Illustrated London News reported on the early stages of An Gorta Mór that was to decimate Ireland in the coming years.

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“Accounts received from different parts of Ireland show that the disease in the potato crop is extending far and wide, and causing great alarm amongst the peasantry. Mr. John Chester, of Kilscorne House, in Magshole, Co Louth, in a letter to the Dublin Evening Post, states that he has a field of twenty acres of […]

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The Hannah Shipwreck

.Reading time 6 minutes.

The brig Hannah transported emigrants to Canada during The Great Hunger. She is known for the terrible circumstances of her 1849 shipwreck, in which the captain and two officers left the sinking ship aboard the only lifeboat, leaving passengers and the rest of the crew to fend for themselves. Hannah was built at Norton, New […]

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Bliain an Áir (Year of Slaughter) – Irish Famine of 1740-1741

.Reading time 12 minutes.

The Irish Famine of 1740–1741, Bliain an Áir (Year of Slaughter), in Ireland was perhaps of similar magnitude, or equally destructive (in fact, it killed a greater percentage of the population in a shorter period of time) to the better-known An t-Ocras Mór of 1845–1852. An t-Ocras Mór where more than a million died in […]

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#OTD in 1845 – The Illustrated London News reported on the early stages of An Gorta Mór that was to decimate Ireland in the coming years.

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“Accounts received from different parts of Ireland show that the disease in the potato crop is extending far and wide, and causing great alarm amongst the peasantry. Mr. John Chester, of Kilscorne House, in Magshole, Co Louth, in a letter to the Dublin Evening Post, states that he has a field of twenty acres of […]

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The Hannah Shipwreck

.Reading time 6 minutes.

The brig Hannah transported emigrants to Canada during The Great Hunger. She is known for the terrible circumstances of her 1849 shipwreck, in which the captain and two officers left the sinking ship aboard the only lifeboat, leaving passengers and the rest of the crew to fend for themselves. Hannah was built at Norton, New […]

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Bilain an Áir (Year of Slaughter) – Irish Famine of 1740-1741

.Reading time 9 minutes.

The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 – Bliain an Áir (Year of Slaughter) – in Ireland was perhaps of similar magnitude to the better-known Great Hunger of 1845–1852. The Great Hunger where more than a million died in misery, was caused in part by a fungal infection in the potato crop and, more specifically, the British […]

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1845 – The Illustrated London News reported on the early stages of An Gorta Mór that was to decimate Ireland in the coming years.

.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“Accounts received from different parts of Ireland show that the disease in the potato crop is extending far and wide, and causing great alarm amongst the peasantry. Mr. John Chester, of Kilscorne House, in Magshole, Co Louth, in a letter to the Dublin Evening Post, states that he has a field of twenty acres of […]

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The Hannah Shipwreck

.Reading time 6 minutes.

The brig Hannah transported emigrants to Canada during The Great Hunger. She is known for the terrible circumstances of her 1849 shipwreck, in which the captain and two officers left the sinking ship aboard the only lifeboat, leaving passengers and the rest of the crew to fend for themselves. Hannah was built at Norton, New […]

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Bliain an Áir (Year of Slaughter) – Irish Famine of 1740-1741

.Reading time 9 minutes.

The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 (Bliain an Áir, ‘Year of Slaughter’) in the Kingdom of Ireland was perhaps of similar magnitude to the better-known Great Hunger of 1845–1852. The Great Hunger where more than a million died in misery, was caused in part by a fungal infection in the potato crop and, more specifically, the […]

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