The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...
The historic photo was displayed as part of The Irish Potato Famine exhibit hosted at ... "This is a very important year as it is 170 years since 1847, which is considered to have been the worst ...
In 1847, 24-year-old Matilda Joyce fled disease, death and despair in Ireland, believing that she would be delivered to the ...
The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...
The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...
The Irish Potato Famine, also known as The Great ... The worst year of the famine was 1847, which was later coined 'Black '47'.
He would have been forgotten but that, in 1890, he composed a lengthy account of the Famine ... of Irish land and labour within a shrinking and accelerating world”. The potato, of course ...
Among the wave of humanity that came to Canada in the 19th century were hundreds of thousands of Irish, some of whom ended up in our communities and, in so doing, helped shape them ...