Based on the extensive archive of the estate comprising over 55,000 documents, the story of the Famine is told through the voices of those who lived and died at that time.
The landlord at Strokestown, Major Denis Mahon was murdered in November 1847, the first landlord to be assassinated during the Famine, Mr O'Driscoll said, and the gun used to shoot him is on display in the museum alongside the story of the men believed to have killed him. The voices of tenants speak through documents from the archive like petitions for help, those of the landlord and agents through notices to quit.
Grain, livestock etc shipped to the mother country under order. Also famine fatigue after year 2, the brits just didn't want to know. Nothing has changed with the latest tory goons
It wasn’t a famine Genocide
Genocide, ethnic cleansing, but not a famine.
Horrific story on the news about the 1400 tenants of the landlord sent on what amounted to a death march to get on ships in Dublin and had a 56% death date for the voyage.
Jeez, €5 million before actually reading a book! An gorta mór, aimsir, an Drochshaoil, genocide.... holy God your 'famine' (sic) is as great as your wars ie. Not great at all great for the Irish! Shocking!
Surely so it reflects the genocide rather than a famine. You can’t have a famine in a country awash with food which ireland was.
aighne_kearney It was a genocide, it’s incorrect to even call it the famine. An gorta mór, never the outsiders term!
How could there be a famine when there was an abundance of food. Call it for what it was and give the people who were starved to death intentionally some justice.
People can’t heat ther home and are using food banks and wer spending 5million on a museum about hunger thats great
This is ironic - as well as unethical, unjust & NOT inkeeping with the Constitution on Equality: That while children are homeless 5 million was spent on art commemorating starvation..
The Irish Holocaust...