In 1847, as hundreds of thousands were dying during the Irish potato famine, an American warship laden with food crossed the Atlantic. It was a humanitarian mission that changed the world.

BOSTON — It was called Black ’47, though few Americans know the phrase. Black ’47 refers to 1847, the worst year of the Irish famine, a potato blight that between 1845 and 1850 killed more ...

They Fell Victim To The Irish Famine In 1847. More Than 150 Years Later, ... Scientists determined that the bones belonged to people who were malnourished and had a potato-heavy diet.

Dr. Ciarán Reilly looks at how mass mortality in 1847 - "Black '47" - affected the funeral and burial tradition in Ireland. During the Great Hunger, its victims were "buried silently and sadly".

📜 Irish Potato Famine: The American Wake -Not all of the 214,000 Irish immigrants in 1847 made it safely to their new homes--and of those who did, many faced classism and xenophobia and even ...

The potato, which had been ... In 1847 alone, 230,000 Irish left for North America and Australia. ... Foster has attempted to set the Famine in a larger context of Irish history.

Republican mural on Upper Falls Road in Belfast argues that Britain was responsible for genocide during the potato famine of 1845-1849. This is one of many murals inspired by Northern Ireland's ...

An Irish historian has uncovered workhouse documents dating back to the Irish potato famine in 1847 which brutally highlights the horrors of the Great Hunger. A Kinsale Union Workhouse Register ...

In 1847, potato acreage shrunk to 1/9 that of 1845. ... “The Great Irish Potato Famine,” deprived 1/3 of the population, virtually their only means of subsistence, for several years.

Nothing is left.No bones. No tombstones. No names of the dead.There is little to indicate that spread beneath this lush, lumpy Irish field are 30,000 victims of the Great Irish Potato Famine.One ...

In 1847, the Choctaw people collected $170 to send to people in Ireland who were starving as a result of the potato famine. Now, people in Ireland are paying it forward.