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THE REVOLUTION PAPERS - PART 101

Final edition of the Revolution Papers
A special edition to remember Ireland's Great Hunger

Newspapers: 
  • The Freeman's Journal, 29 September 1846
  • Kerry Evening Post, 30 January 1847
  • Nation, 17 April 1847
  • Evening Packet, 23 September 1847
  • Freeman's Journal, 14 October 1847
  • Northern Whig, 3 August 1848

Contemporary document: 
'Sketching the fearful incidents': Extended excerpt from The Illustrated London News, 13 February 1847

Documentary DVDs: 

'When Ireland Starved' (Radharc/RTÉ)
'Ireland's Great Hunger' (Rebecca Abbott/Liam O'Brien/Quinnipiac University)

Contents and articles:
Timeline of events
'Ireland's Great Famine': the failure of the Irish potato crop and the response of the British government

'Victims in their native land': Irish newspapers report from a country ravaged by starvation, disease and death
'A feared institution': the workhouse system and the Famine
'Resisting famine': across Ireland crowds of people gather to prevent the transport and export of food
'Waves of despair': refugees flee Ireland to escape starvation and disease

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