☘️ This beautiful sculpture was built by the Irish people to honor the American Choctaw Indian tribe. They were grateful because in 1847 the Choctaw people sent money to Ireland when they learned that Irish people were starving due to the potato famine 📍Co. Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪

SOURCES Charles Read, The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain’s Financial Crisis (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2022), 55. Cormac Ó Gráda, Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (1999) Christine Kinealy, *This Great Calamity: The Irish

Bronze shoes which are part of the National Famine Way trail in Ireland The trail commemorates the forced emigration of Irish people during the Famine (1845-1849) The shoes are cast from a real pair of children's shoes found bound together in a 19th-century cottage roof

It's December 1847. We join a crowd consisting mainly of women and kids, armed only with stones, sweeping brushes and extreme hunger. They are facing off with rows of panicked and unpredictable Dublin Metropolitan Police protecting the local shops. We are on Dorset Street, but

Fox hunting during the "Irish Famine" (An Gorta Mór) • "The Irish Masters of Foxhounds Association was established in 1845 during the Famine. While ordinary people were starving to death, there was aristocrats in red coats riding around on horseback, torturing animals to death"

“The Irish famine showed the world what happens when mass starvation is allowed to run its course. Today, Gaza asks whether we’ve learned any lessons - or whether, nearly two centuries on, some lives are still too cheap to save” ✍️ Opinion by Barry Malone middleeasteye.pulse.ly/atiod4oqpr

On this day in 1845, the 26 year old "Famine" Queen Victoria bizarrely published a full-page letter in The Times newspaper. The young monarch, notorious for presiding over the British ethnic cleansing of Ireland known as "The Great Famine," was running a fundraiser to feed her

Beneath the Blighted Sky poem by S O'Mordha Author of The Starving Times-Voices From The Irish Famine (c) In the winter of the soul, Cork lies draped in ash and mist, its quays silent save for the occasional groan of the weary tide. facebook.com/groups/3738853…

Time for Truth BUCHANAN: Dublin Time Machine Victoria failed, moth morally and practically, to save the Irish people, through her indifference and failure to grasp the extent of the devastation caused by her govt., under her command. "The Famine Queen.." …anadianfamineresearcher.wordpress.com/category/queen…

A “famine” graveyard in Dingle, Co. Kerry. Only re-discovered 40 years ago. Over 10,000 people are believed to be buried there. Dingle & the west coast of Ireland were the most devastated. Photograph taken from the book The Truth Behind The Irish Famine ☘️🇮🇪

1740s Ireland. The island is covered in cattle. Thousands of them. The grazing land is perfect for livestock. Irish cattle are exported to England in enormous numbers. The beef feeds English cities. The wealth goes to Anglo-Irish landowners. The Irish peasantry raising these

Very interesting post! Maith thú.

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Worth a read…

Interesting!

Israeli terrorists just attacked the International United Nation forces in south Lebanon. The base for Ghana's forces received direct strike. This is what the west is supporting and funding and sending their sons to die for.

And this is why education on an Gorta Mór is badly needed in Britain…sad to see in 2026.

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Effects still felt today…

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