The Irish Famine

IrishEmpire.org GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Between 1845 and 1852 one million Irish died of starvation and a further million emigrated. For some, the route to escape was on the Jeannie Johnston ship across the Atlantic to the New World.
This short video attempts to explain the poetry of pain. ‘Digging’ is a poem by the winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Seamus Heaney.

[@MoJohnnys]

Please take a moment of silence for those who lost their lives. And yet let's rejoice for Ireland now thrives.

[@OSTARAEB4]

I think this is something many Irish want to forget but is always in the mind and blood. It's there and won't go away and the history is not forgotten. I think it evokes an everlasting sadness and a very quiet anger. I suppose for someone that describes themselves as a Christian, one can be challenged to overcome a rage at slights to Irish people still persist. The Irish will be polite but will put those in place if need be.

[@bindiodwyer9727]

the cause was not the potato it was the British empire

[@OSTARAEB4]

The Irish have risen and will continue to do so.