Over 1 million Irish Famine refugees fled to America as conditions worsened in Ireland. The majority of Irish Famine refugees arrived, along with many other immigrants, in the port of New York. Their first view of the new country was the Staten Island Quarntine Station.
One of the striking features of the Great Irish Famine was that it occurred in an era of mass media. Newspapers reported on the event in Europe and America, cables relayed news around the globe with relative ease and,
Research into the life of Kate Corbett, my great-grandmother, revealed a childhood that straddled the worst years of the great famine. Born into a relatively prosperous Dublin family in 1841
It's often said that "Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it" and the terrible Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s is a lesson we've failed to completely take on board.
The potato, like the tomato, came to Europe from the Americas and initially
The disaster of Great Famine which struck Ireland in 1845 can trace most of its causes to the introduction of the dreaded Penal Laws in 1695. These unjust laws deprived the Catholic majority of many civil rights including education, religious freedom and ownership of land;
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