Emily Hegarty (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} emilygenie) wrote,@ 2005-04-02 23:43:00 |
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The Great Hunger
The History Place has a long and informative article about the Irish Potato Famine and the associated exodus from Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century. Depressing reading. My own direct ancestors did not emigrate then; they mostly left Ireland in the 1890s.
