letters from the irish famine

letters written by a girl from Clare(ireland)during the famine.

I have had many requests for information but have been unable to offer much help..
All i know is that i got it about 14 years ago in a bargain bin on an uncopyrighted windows 3.1/windows 95 disk.

The publisher was flourish publishing but they seem to be defunct,I certainly havent come across them and i have looked quite a lot.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• irish
• famine
• letters
• ireland
• potato
• history
• sad

[camillenixon]

Thank you for posting this. It is heart-rending. It makes me count my blessings.

[macker33]

@camillenixon makes you wonder why people are rioting in london.

[meadhbh6]

I heard you on RTE! :)

[macker33]

@meadhbh6 if it was the hairy guy with a beard ,sunglasses and no shoes it wasnt me.

[oliness]

This is almost certainly fictional, and not completely accurate (eg, the ban on Catholics reading and writing was lifted about 50 years before the famine). But many terrible things did happen during this time and this helps us remember.

[macker33]

@oliness Far as i know the penal laws were still in full effect.

[AlecFromBakoMusic]

I LOVE ALL IRISH!!!!!! I AM VERY PROUD TO BE IRISH!!!!!! THIS IS VERY SAD!!!!! PEOPLE NEED TO REALIZE IRISH ARE A GOOD HARD WORKING PEOPLE THE GREED AND HATE IS WHAT DID THIS!!!!!! THE SO CALLED IRISH FAMINE WAS REALLY "IRISH GENOCIDE" EEEEEERRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNN GGOOOOOO BRAAAGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mower1272]

the maker of our troubles,and the breaker of our bones;to keep him up he keeps us down,and grinds us on the stones.Their taxes and their terrors,boys,they have us nearly dead they drink their cup of bloodshed up,they rob our daily bread;false princes of perdition black,indifferent to our groans;how long more should we stand aside and let them steal our homes? UNKOWN AUTHOR 1847 FULL POEM IN JOSEPH O,CONNOR BOOK STAR OF THE SEA

[EMILYLEAH100]

@jpandyaraja tony blair said sorry in 1997

[sean2023]

@xPlantpoTx Real funny. Dickhead

[xPlantpoTx]

How many potato's does it take to kill an irish man,  NONE!

[wildplumbeauty]

The letters were heartbreaking :(

[elamite66]

@LordAeduard The situation was a tragedy for which Westminster did not do anywhere near enough There is not reason to exaggerate or propagandize an already tragic situation I will read the Relief Act I have learned my history and analogy would be the Jewish Holocaust the instances where certain people who were Jews under the Nuremberg Laws were given a pass This fact does not make holocaust any better there is no need to propagandize over it I know many people have an emotional involvement Peace

[LordAeduard]

@oliness, If you refer to The Relief Act of 1829, which was considered "Catholic emancipation," it specifically didn't overrule any local laws about educating Catholics, so no...the ban on the Irish learning to read and write was still in effect unless any local British landlord decided differently, which most of course did not. That being said...I'm pretty sure this is NOT fictional. And by the way, 1829 was only about 20 years prior to the famine, not 50. Learn your history.

[LordAeduard]

@elamite66, Most Irish were still NOT allowed to learn to read and write! Read Section 16 of The Relief Act of 1829. It specifically did not contradict any "local statute, ordinance, or rule," so the ruling class could, and did, still exclude Catholics (Irish) from the schools in Ireland and prevent them learning to read and write. - And the government "did not do anywhere near enough?" They did nothing but watch the Irish starve! Learn your history.