Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Stair na hÉireann | History of Ireland

Irish History, Culture, Heritage, Language, Mythology

#OTD in 1847 – Eyewitness report on An Gorta Mór by James Mahoney in The Illustrated London News.

12/02/2023.Reading time 1 minute.

‘I started from Cork… for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in […]

#OTD in 1847 – Eyewitness report on An Gorta Mór by James Mahoney in The Illustrated London News.

12/02/2022.Reading time 1 minute.

‘I started from Cork… for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in […]

#OTD in 1847 – Eyewitness report on An Gorta Mór by James Mahoney in The Illustrated London News.

12/02/2021.Reading time 1 minute.

‘I started from Cork… for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in […]

#OTD in 1847 – Eyewitness report on The Great Hunger by James Mahoney in The Illustrated London News.

12/02/2020.Reading time 1 minute.

‘I started from Cork… for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in […]

#OTD in 1847 – Eyewitness report on The Great Hunger by James Mahoney in The Illustrated London News.

12/02/2019.Reading time 1 minute.

‘I started from Cork… for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in […]

#OTD in 1847 – Eyewitness report on The Great Hunger by James Mahoney in The Illustrated London News.

12/02/2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

‘I started from Cork… for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in […]

#OTD in 1847 – Eyewitness report on The Great Hunger (An Gorta Mór) by James Mahoney in The Illustrated London News.

12/02/2017.Reading time 2 minutes.

‘I started from Cork… for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in […]

1847 – Eyewitness report on Án Gorta Mór by James Mahoney in ‘The Illustrated’ London News.

12/02/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

‘I started from Cork… for Skibbereen and saw little until we came to Clonakilty, where the coach stopped for breakfast; and here, for the first time, the horrors of the poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg alms: amongst them was a woman carrying in […]

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