Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above : The Emigrant Prepare To Leave By the closing months of 1847 the distress had greatly lessened. The harvest was a very good one, and, before the end of the year, the famine might be regarded as over. Its effects, however, long remained. Results of the Famine.—The classes which had been the employers of [...]

Above : Illustration Picture Of The Famine THE end of the famine found the masses of the Irish people reduced in number and depressed in spirit. Their great leader was dead. A sea of suffering divided them from the days of Emancipation and of the Maw Meetings. Different Views of the Two Sections of the [...]