The other carried another inscription: “To commemorate the hungry poor who walked here in 1849 and who walk the Third World today. One a plain stone cross engraved with the words ‘Doolough Tragedy 1849’. Two memorials marked the spot where the disaster happened. The inky waters of Doolough came into view and then three hills in the distance upon one of which you could still make out the scant edges of the old potato fields. Most emigrant ships were small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary, and often unseaworthy. Within five years, one million people died of starvation emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada. Around the structure skeletal figures of the starving stand pleading.Īnd then we continued our journey onwards to Delphi in the footsteps of our ancestors as we walked our way through history. The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. It’s a sad metal structure of a three-masted ship, the sort that took people to the New World back then. Four miles away is Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s holiest pilgrimage site, at the foot of which is Ireland’s National Famine Memorial. Louisborough today is a small friendly town. The letter writer went on to call for an inquiry into the ‘melancholy affair’.
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