Tag: The Truth Behind The Irish Famine

Ireland 1847

17/10/2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dublin University Magazine “Death by starvation has ceased to be an article of news, and day by day multitudes of our population are swept down into the pit – literally the pit – in which the victims of the famine are interred.” The Truth Behind The Irish Famine’ 72 paintings and 472 eyewitness quotes. http://www.jerrymulvihill.com

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Ireland | Cork Examiner Newspaper | 1847

01/10/2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“140 people have died in the Skibbereen Workhouse in one month, 8 in one day; and Mr. McCarthy Downing states that ‘they came into the house merely and solely for the purpose of getting a coffin’.” Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine, 100 images, 472 eye witness quotes:. Signed copies at http://www.jerrymulvihill.com

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Ireland 1845—52

15/09/2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Dunghill beside the entrance fertilised the potato’s. The pig was not to be consumed by the family but to be fattened and sold on ‘Gale day’, when half year’s rent was due. Passing in and out of the cottage it gobbled up potato leavings from the floor, dropped excrement where it pleased, and even slept […]

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Ireland 1847

05/09/2023.Reading time 1 minute.

William Bennett, Quaker, “We entered a cabin. Stretched in one dark corner, scarcely visible, from the smoke and rags that covered them, were three children huddled together, lying there because they were too weak to rise, pale and ghastly, the little limbs – on removing a portion of the filthy covering – perfectly emaciated, eyes […]

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An Irish Labourer on the Public Works in 1845–52

21/08/2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Danny Howes | Accounts describe workers spending their final moments crawling along the roadside in the direction of their homes. Far from having their wants relieved, thousands of labourers had been effectively worked to death and the health of tens of thousands gravely affected. Taken from the book The Truth Behind The Irish Famine:72 paintings, […]

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Ireland 1849 | Sidney Osborne

13/08/2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“There is no mistaking famine. I know not how the case may be in other climes with other races, but I can vouch for the fact, from my own experience last year and on the present occasion, that starvation in Ireland has its own distinct external physical phenomena.” The Truth Behind The Irish Famine’ 72 […]

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The Cork Reporter 1847

05/08/2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“Jeremiah Carthy entered the shop of Mr. Robert Vickery, of this town, when he fell senseless, and died three hours after at the workhouse, though being kindly attended to by the Rev. Mr. Freeman. Dr. Jagoe, and the family, before his removal.” Taken from the book ‘The Truth Behind The Irish Famine’ by Jerry Mulvihill. […]

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Ireland 1845–52

28/07/2023.Reading time less than 1 minute.

“Most farmers treated thieves as threats to their own survival. They caught them, beat them, had them jailed, or tied them to the fence posts or cartwheels as a warning to others. When the thievery and looting continued, they built mantraps, 8 to 10 feet deep laid with spikes and concealed with brambles, grass, and […]

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