The Irish Genocide 1845-52

12/07/2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Robert Whyte: “On May 26th 1847, thirty vessels with 10,000 Irish emigrants were waiting at Grosse Isle, Canada. On May 31st forty vessels were waiting, extending in a line two miles down the St. Lawrence, Canada.”The life expectancy of the survivors was 8 years. Taken form The Truth Behind The Irish Famine. 72 paintings, 400 […]

An eviction scene during the Irish Genocide by Danny Howes

17/02/2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

An eviction scene during the Irish Genocide by Danny Howes. The total number of people who had to leave their holdings in this period is projected to be around half a million and 200,000 small holdings were obliterated. Taken from the book The Truth Behind The Irish Famine by Jerry Mulvihill, 72 paintings in the […]

Bliain an Áir | Year of the Slaughter

02/11/2020.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 […]

#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.

18/10/2020.Reading time 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 […]

Bliain an Áir (Year of the Slaughter)

02/11/2019.Reading time 12 minutes.

#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.

18/10/2019.Reading time 1 minute.

The Hannah Shipwreck

13/08/2019.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 […]

Bliain an Áir (Year of the Slaughter)

02/11/2018.Reading time 12 minutes.

#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.

18/10/2018.Reading time 1 minute.

The Hannah Shipwreck

13/08/2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

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