An Drochshaol/An Gorta Mór reported was first reported on 22 December 1849. Bridget O’Donnel was a famine victim from County Clare whose story appeared in The Illustrated London News on 22 December 1849.
Evicted from her home while pregnant and sick with fever, O’Donnel endured a losing her child at birth and watching her thirteen-year-old son starve to death.
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