METHODIST RESPONSES TO THE GREAT HUNGER
By Danny Ó Seachnasaigh The partial failure of the potato crop in 1845 heralded the beginning of what has come to be known globally as the Great Irish Famine or Great Hunger, An Gorta Mór. In the following year of 1846 the potato crop would fail totally, with 1847 being forever cemented in the Irish … Read more