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OpeningIreland before the FamineDisaster strikesMap –impact of the FamineDealing with deathResponses 1 –state aid or self-help?Responses 2 –evictionsResponses 3 –emigrationThe Famine in fiction for children & young adults & in poetry
The Spectre
Illustrated verse by 'H.D.', London 1851
The fell Spectre advanc'd-who the horror shall tellOf his galloping stride, as he sounded the knellOf thousands on thousands who 'neathhis eye fell.
Starving Child
Anonymous watercolour
, c.
1850National Library of Ireland
‘Famine Song’ For copyright reasonsSinead O'Connoronly short excerpts
Universal Mother
of this and other Various editionstracks can be played
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