famine – History Ireland

GADUGI—THE CHEROKEE GIFT TO IRELAND IN 1847

By Christine Kinealy Many Irish people are aware that in Black ’47, possibly the deadliest year of the Great Hunger, members of the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma raised $170 to help the starving poor in Ireland. This act of generosity from people who themselves had been colonised, impoverished and displaced is the best-known example of … Read more

Punch and the Great Famine

by Peter Gray The widespread use of Punch cartoons in books and teaching materials on nineteenth century history is hardly surprising: these often striking images are a convenient visual aid for understanding a period in which photography was in its infancy. Yet the use of this graphic record in an unreflective manner is fraught with … Read more