The Great Irish Potato Famine: Some Perspective at 175 Years
Posted onThe Great Irish Potato Famine: Some Perspective at 175 Years “The survivors were like walking skeletons – the men gaunt and haggard, stamped with the livid mark of hunger; the children crying with pain; the women in some of the cabins too weak to stand.” W.E. Forster, 1847 The impact of the Irish Potato Famine, […]