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Former Irish-trained one time champion racehorse found ‘starving in a cold mud pen waiting to die’ in the US
A formerly Irish-trained champion racehorse who once won at Royal Ascot was found “starving in a cold mud pen waiting to die” on a farm in the United States. War Envoy, once trained by Aidan O ...
The New York Times1mon
The Lancashire Sufferers.
The men who laded heavily large ships with food for the starving Irish in 1847, have as many ships as then, and as much great-hearted sympathy for a similar mission to the sufferers of the sister ...
BBC1y
Sculpture marks Choctaw generosity to Irish famine victims
County Cork Native American Choctaw leaders have arrived in Ireland to unveil a sculpture celebrating the financial contribution made by the tribe to starving Irish people in 1847. At the height ...
The Irish Times9y
From the archive: Starving to death – what it really means and how it was avoided
Astonishingly, if the starving person begins to eat again ... (Extracts from the documents were carried in some editions of yesterday’s Irish Times. The documents broke no new ground, but ...
The Irish Times1mon
Starving people roam the streets as anarchy sets in
December 7th, 1846: Anarchy is setting in. Bands of starving people roam the country begging for food, "more like famishing wolves than men". In the relatively prosperous county of Westmeath ...