Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated one million people either from starvation or disease. Thousands of people emigrated to America across the ...
We look at the story and history behind it and why it's so important. The Famine Memorial in Dublin Ireland is a collection of statues designed and crafted by Dublin sculptor Rowan Gillespie and ...
Over a million people died of famine between 1845 and 1851; a further million left Ireland, never to return. Those who left Ireland in the years after the famine were further up the (short ...
DUBLIN, Dec. 15. -- A meeting of the Irish Parliamentary party to discuss the distress in the west of Ireland and consider means to "force the Government to provide for the immediate necessities ...