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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.

irishcentral.com/roots/history

On the 9 September 1845 the Dublin Evening Post officially reported that the Potato Blight had arrived in Ireland. The disease had previously been reported in Belgium, but this was the first time that it had been spotted in Ireland. It is thought that the first outbreak of Blight may have occurred in Waterford, though there is no concrete proof that it had not previously been unreported elsewhere.

On 23 March 1847, the Choctaws Nation took up a donation, raising approximately $170 ($5,000 in today's money), and sent it to the town of Midleton, County Cork for famine relief.

The donation came shortly after the Choctaw Nation had embarked on the Trail of Tears and the selfless nature of the gesture has created an everlasting bond between Irish and Native American people. 1/2

An Gorta Mór reported was first reported on 22nd December 1849. Bridget O’Donnel was a famine victim from County Clare whose story appeared in The Illustrated London News on December 22, 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.

irishcentral.com/roots/history

IrishCentral.comInterview with grieving Irish Famine motherBridget O’Donnel was a poor famine victim from County Clare whose harrowing story appeared in The Illustrated London News on December 22, 1849. The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Great Hunger. Used frequently to accompany books, articles, and exhibitions about An Gorta...

15th Lock on the .
Can't help but to think of the people who would have walked past this point, in less happy times
1,490 famine emigrants walked the 150km along the canal, from Strokestown, Co Roscommon to ships in Dublin in 1847, a year which became known as "Black ’47".

On the 9 September 1845 the Dublin Evening Post officially reported that the Potato Blight had arrived in Ireland. The disease had previously been reported in Belgium, but this was the first time that it had been spotted in Ireland. It is thought that the first outbreak of Blight may have occurred in Waterford, though there is no concrete proof that it had not previously been unreported elsewhere.

An Gorta Mór was a military, political and social construct - a tinder box created by 250 years of domination by the Crown.
Plenty of evidence that it was a happy coincidence for many who benefitted financially, or saw it as 'God's judgement' on the Irish.

We are the only country in the world with a population that is lower now than it was in 1850.

On 23 March 1847, the Choctaws Nation took up a donation, raising approximately $170 ($5,000 in today's money), and sent it to the town of Midleton, County Cork for famine relief.

The donation came shortly after the Choctaw Nation had embarked on the Trail of Tears and the selfless nature of the gesture has created an everlasting bond between Irish and Native American people.  1/2

Interesting:

“The use of a longitudinal database of Famine immigrants who initially settled in New York .. indicates that the Famine Irish had far more occupational mobility than previously recognized. Only 25% of men ended their working careers in low-wage, unskilled labor; 44% ended up in white-collar occupations of one kind or another—primarily running saloons, groceries, and other small businesses.”

direct.mit.edu/jinh/article-ab

Via:

marginalrevolution.com/margina

MIT Press“The Best Country in the World”: The Surprising Social Mobility of New York’s Irish-Famine ImmigrantsAbstract. Historians generally portray the Irish immigrants who came to the United States, fleeing the Great Famine of the mid-nineteenth century, as hopelessly mired in poverty and hardship due to discrimination, a lack of occupational training, and oversaturated job markets in the East Coast cities where most of them settled. Although the digitization of census data and other records now enables the tracking of nineteenth-century Americans far more accurately than in the past, scholars have not utilized such data to determine whether the Famine Irish were, in fact, trapped on the bottom rungs of the American socioeconomic ladder. The use of a longitudinal database of Famine immigrants who initially settled in New York and Brooklyn indicates that the Famine Irish had far more occupational mobility than previously recognized. Only 25 percent of men ended their working careers in low-wage, unskilled labor; 44 percent ended up in white-collar occupations of one kind or another—primarily running saloons, groceries, and other small businesses.

An Gorta Mór reported was first reported on 22nd December 1849. Bridget O’Donnel was a famine victim from County Clare whose story appeared in The Illustrated London News on December 22, 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.

irishcentral.com/roots/history

IrishCentral.comInterview with grieving Irish Famine motherBridget O’Donnel was a poor famine victim from County Clare whose harrowing story appeared in The Illustrated London News on December 22, 1849. The above newspaper illustration is one of the most iconic images from Ireland’s Great Hunger. Used frequently to accompany books, articles, and exhibitions about An Gorta...