John Kelly Green's Blog – May 2010 Archive (1)

This very informative article really hits home. My grandmother Brigit Granahan's family home in County Mayo was "owned" by one of the English landlords held responsible for thousands of deaths during the Irish "Starvation." Let's not call it a "famine" anymore. JKG



Writing in the Nation newspaper in the early summer of 1847, John Mitchel described a journey through Connaught. He and his companions arrived at a village where they had been hospitably received two years earlier:

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