Exploring Ireland, Europe & the world of food Welcome I'm Faith and I'm member of the Jones Generation and a mature traveller. I have lived on 3 continents and visited over 30 countries in my
The untold story of 50,000 Famine Irish who were deported back to Ireland by New England authorities.
Queen Victoria was dubbed "The Famine Queen" by Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, but in reality, did she push her government to do more to help the famine-stricken Irish?
Discover the heartbreaking stories of 976 famine victims buried on the site of the Kilkenny Union Workhouse.
"Whenever there's famine, hunger, malnutrition, it's not because of lack of food — it's always because of political failure"
In this letter, we share a reader story of two of her Irish ancestors who arrived in Australia as part of the Earl Grey Irish orphan emigration scheme.
Irish famine and the Choctaw Nation is a story of immense generosity and a humanitarian bond that stretches across an ocean.
The Irish Famine scattered a nation across the world. Learn about how to find your ancestors and help others find theirs in this BillionGraves blog post.
Potato blight played a role, but there was much more at play in Ireland’s Great Hunger of 1845 – 1852. What should it be called?
By James Hunter, author and emeritus professor of history at the University of the Highlands and Islands
Our guide has told the same story perhaps a thousand times yet still it brought a lump to her throat. “People around here recall that in 1849 folks living in my home town of Louisborough in Co Mayo - around 600 in total and including women and children - were starving as a result of the potato famine and a rumor...
‘So a girl fictitiously died, held her own funeral before entering a new world filled with flowers, rainbows and cats. Now what?’ Stemming from their previous adventures with the protagonist, the title ‘Feast or Famine’ is a metaphorical question of ‘to do’ or ‘to die’ the duo posed to battle a surfacing predicament in actuality. …
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Visit Ireland, and you may never see, touch or eat a potato the same way again. Predictably, I found the tuber abundant on menus across the country, from village pubs to fine-dining establishments. But, as scrumptious as my favourite potato dishes are, by my fourth day in Ireland I was craving alternative carbs: rice, pasta… anything. There’s only so much mashed potato a food lover like myself can get excited about, you know? It’s overkill, to be honest. But the tragedy is that the potato precipitated a pivotal event in Ireland’s history that did, in fact, kill. The History Brought to
DLACZEGO MINISTERSTWO MILCZY !!!? To, co wydarzyło się w Warszawie, wydarzy się w całym kraju! Emeryci muszą znać prawdę...
The Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience in Co. Wexford is the recipient of a Merit Award from CIE Tours International.
Study is first time weather data has been used argue wartime policies exacerbated famine
During Chairman Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward, which was an effort to use centralized Communist planning to vault China’s economy past those of the Western European powers, China endu…
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Rethinking Schools. 5 pages. A trial role play helps students reflect on responsibility for the deaths of Irish peasants during the so-called potato famine.
The Strokestown Park estate sits in the middle of 11,000 acres in the rolling hillside of County Roscommon. Today, the beautiful house and stables (which
Margaret McCarthy sailed from Liverpool on 7th September 1849 on the Columbus and arrived in New York on 22nd October. She settled in New York.
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In the year 1500 BC, the Israelites who had settled in Egypt had significantly grown in numbers. So much so that the Pharaoh at the time grew fearful of them: paranoid that they would eventually take over. Forgetting that it was actually an Israelite by the name of Joseph - yes, the guy with the groovy coat - who had guided the Egyptian people away from famine a few hundred years earlier, the Pharaoh made all the Israelites slaves. Things then took a most heinous turn when the Pharaoh ordered the midwives to drown all male Hebrew babies at birth.
Queen Victoria was dubbed "The Famine Queen" by Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, but in reality, did she push her government to do more to help the famine-stricken Irish?
The 1886 famine in Orissa state killed over a million people and galvanised Indians into fighting against British colonial rule, writes historian Dinyar Patel.
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"Wear green on St. Patrick's Day or get pinched." That pretty much sums up the Irish-American "curriculum" that I learned when I was in school. Yes, I recall a nod to the so-called Potato Famine, but it was mentioned only in passing.
