Tag: Famine
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The Stories of Seamus No. 5
Beggars This is a tale of Famine Ireland in a time when a Viceroy of the British crown ruled in Dublin and the peasant Irish were dying because they could not afford to eat. They called it a famine but there was plenty of food under British control and they refused to release it to…
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Sex and the Famine
Recently, I was reading through several books on the ‘Great Famine in Ireland’, or ‘Genocide for those who prefer to think of it that way. I read about Mayo, Sligo, Galway and West Cork where the men women and children died in their thousands during the ‘Great Famine’ in towns like Skibbereen and Ballinrobe. But,…
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The Famine Potato
Almost every article and book about the Great Irish Famine reminds us how poor the Irish peasantry was in mid-nineteenth century Ireland, and yet they were fit and well enough to undertake the most arduous of labouring tasks. Historians have suggested that it was the reliance of the Irish peasantry on the potato that was…
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Charles Trevelyan
Sinner or Saint? When trying to unravel the role that Charles Trevelyan played in the ‘Great Famine’ you are entering something of a minefield. Any person who has attempted to learn about ‘The Famine in Ireland’ quickly realised that the research that has been carried out is filled with invective supporting opposing views on its…
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Kathy’s Famine Story
I was born in a thatched cottage standing by the side of a mountain stream. It was lonely in that part of the country, but a pleasant enough place in which to live. During the summer the wild ducks would bring their little ones to feed on the nearby bog and you could not stoop…
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Famine Song
Old Skibbereen By Patrick Carpenter ; Air: ‘The Wearing of the Green’ A Young American and his Irish Father “O! father, dear, I’ve often heard you speak of Erin’s Isle – Its scenes how bright and beautiful, how “rich and rare” they smile; You say it is a lovely land in which a Prince might…
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