Wikipedia Related to the Irish Famine:the Great Hunger,Potato famine ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1.the Irish Famine- a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (mo...
"These developments in the social status of Catholic Irish Americans appear to have affected Dillon O'Brien's 1866 novel, which represents Irish American economic success as the Midwestern frontier and, in doing so, displaces the troubling Famine calamities of the past from the major scope of na...
The Irish Poet Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of-mouth material in Gaelic, said to be from ancient sources with no certainty as to the origin of the material and are referred to as epic poetry. Epic poetry is usually defined or regulated to a time or period when the work was ...
Daniel maintained his marble studios on 23rd street in Manhattan, near the east river. Known as a cultured and gracious host, he was beloved by theTammany men. Contemporaries describe him as a first class carver, mechanic, historian, and he had the ability to write in the Irish language “...
Lizzie Nunnery with a great version of Hughie Jones’ song Ellan Vannin, about the SS Ellan Vannin, the paddle steamer that sank in the Irish Sea in December 1909. Read the history of the SS Ellan Vannin (which is the Manx name for the Isle of Man), onWikipedia. ...
The 15-year-old Louis XIV, as played by the Irish actor Robert Sheehan, is a major character of the short-lived historical fantasy series Young Blades from January to June 2005. George Blagden portrays Louis XIV in the Canal+ series Versailles which aired for three seasons from 2015. Musical...
Not everyone viewed the loss of so many lives as a calamity, as the preface to the Irish Census of 1851 makes clear: “…we feel it will be gratifying to your Excellency to find that the population has been diminished in so remarkable a manner by famine, disease and emigration between 18...
And all the refugees in America, now in 2024, from the Irish potato famine? And from Italy’s, Germany’s, and Poland’s political upheavals? Instead of calling itself a “country of immigrants,” Americans should denominate the population as “refugees” and all apply to UNRWA for cash,...
Emigration has always been the preferred solution to Irish economic problems; at least since the famine in the 1840s and possibly before. Politicians here disgracefully refer to it as a “release valve”, meaning that the social tensions built up by huge unemployment can be released by clearing...
Cassedy's mother used Yiddish words in her daily speech, “We'd be in the kitchen and she would say, 'Hand me that shissel,' meaning that bowl;” but her name comes from her Irish-protestant father. Šepetys spent her childhood explaining her name to the people around her, “...