Asenath Nicholson, the American who described the Great Famine
            
        
            
        
        
        
            She was an American Quaker who would write one of the most powerful first hand accounts of the Famine. Maureen Murphy tells how Asenath Nicholson bore witness, offered help and challenged the status quo.
        
        
        
        
            
                Famine Ireland
                 • 22 Mar 21