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Cork city's Irish Famine deaths

Many of our ancestors made their way to North America to escape the poverty and hunger of the Irish Great Hunger, many more were to remain in the county and become part of the one million Irish people who died of starvation and disease. Cork city witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Irish Famine.

USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a famine-relief mission

On April 12, 1847, during the height of the Great Hunger, The New England Relief Committee sent the USS Jamestown laden with supplies to the starving Irish.

The Blue-Blood Families That Made Fortunes in the Opium Trade

Long before the Sacklers appeared on the scene, families like the Astors, the Peabodys, and the Delanos cemented their upper-crust status through the global trade in opium.

Wolfe Tones Brian Warfield: 'We tell the stories of Irish history that were denied'

LankaWeb – Our Forests & Banks on the IMF Slave Block: Outa Colombo On to Marrakesh