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.

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

02/11/2017.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.

18/10/2017.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

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Bliain an Áir | Year of the Slaughter

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