Gerard Moran explains the devastating impact of workhouses on Irish family life
How has Ireland - and the world - commemorated the horrors of the Famine? Emily Mark-Fitzgerald explains how approaches have varied over the years and across the globe.
In this video, Historian John Crowley explains the impact on the Famine on both Irish emigration to the United States and the direction of the Catholic church at home.
n this video, historian Ciarán Reilly shares a letter from the Lucas Clements collection at NUI Maynooth, in which a desperate man called Philip Lynch begs for help for his family.
Children were perhaps the group that suffered most during the Famine. In this video, historian Gerard Moran explains what happened to them.
The Famine took place several years after the invention of photography - and yet no photographs of the devastation have survived. In this short video, historian Emily Mark-Fizgerald explains how contemporary visual artists depicted the Famine - and how subjective those images were.
