Gerard Moran explains the devastating impact of workhouses on Irish family life
In this video, Ciarán Reilly explains how the practice of subdividing small farms into even smaller plots contributed to the devastation of rural Ireland during the Famine.
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.
In the 1840s, all of Europe was struck by the potato blight and famine was widespread. But no other european country was affected as catastrophically as Ireland. In this short video Helene O'Keeffe explains why this happened, and the deadly effects.
