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
