Genocide in Ireland / 1845-1851

Pilgrimage to Ennistymon

Jimmy Patricia and Maureen

with obituary of our great great grandfather John Maloney 

Background to the Maloney Brother's Emigration from Clare click here

“The Irish Famine of 1845 to 1852 was the greatest social calamity, in terms of morality and suffering, that Ireland has ever experienced."
From Ireland's Great Hunger Museum

" More evictions took place in the County here (Clare) than in any other in Ireland. By the time the Famine had ended, up to eighty thousand souls had perished in Clare.  

Those who survived this holocaust could rarely bring themselves to speak of it to their children and when they did invariably referred to it indirectly as "An Drochshaol - the Bad Times"

From the memorial in Ennistymon, Clare

 “The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–1849” that “…no issue has provoked so much anger or so embittered relations between the two countries (England and Ireland) as the indisputable fact that huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation.” 

"Cecil Woodham-Smith, noted scholar and author “The Great Hunger” 

• More on Maureen's Pilgrimage to Ennistymon Clare Ireland with Pat and Jimmy - The Work House and the Genocide in Ireland here

• Irish Great Hunger Museum - Ireland: A Brief Overview here “The Irish Famine of 1845 to 1852 was the greatest social calamity, in terms of morality and suffering, that Ireland has ever experienced”and here 

• Workhouse records reveal rural Ireland’s harsh past Mary McKee  here

• The Workhouse by Derek Reed December 21, 2019 here

• The Great Irish Famine ( Genocide ) documentary (1996) here

• The Irish Potatoe Famine From the Irish Famine Exhibition in Dublin here
• The Great Irish Famine 1845-1851 – A Brief Overview from the Irish Story by John Dorney here
• CHERISHING THE IRISH DIASPORA PRESIDENT MARY ROBINSON ON A MATTER OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE 2 FEBRUARY 1995 here

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