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unusual facts about Irish famine



Abbeydorney

The heavyweight boxer John L. Sullivan's father Mike Sullivan emigrated from Abbeydorney after the Famine.

General Tom Thumb

On his return home from his second tour in 1847 (Black 47 of the Irish Famine), aboard the Cambria, he attracted the attention of the explorer John Palliser who "was not a little surprised, on entering the state-cabin, to hear the most unnatural shrill little pipe exclaiming, “Waiter! bwing me a Welsh wabbit”.

Maude Robinson

She writes of Quaker courage in the face of religious persecution and the efforts of Quakers to alleviate human suffering in the Irish Famine and the Franco-Prussian War.

Tirawley

The 19th century writer Caesar Otway wrote 'Sketches of Erris and Tyrawley' a sometimes amusing and always interesting account of life in North Mayo just prior to the devastating Irish Famine of 1845 - 47.


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Anamnocht

Frederick Douglass and the White Negro Frederick Douglass agus na Negroes Bana, Frederick Douglass, the "Martin Luther King" of the 19th century, escaped from slavery in the US and fled to Ireland to seek refuge during the Irish famine.

St George's Market

Writer Ruth Carr, Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari, print maker Robin Cordiner, musicians Nikki Such, Patrick and Bronagh Davey and Irish, Greek and Indian dancers worked with the children and their older counterparts in discovering new ways of looking at themes of cultural diversity, memory and the Irish Famine.