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 another glimpse fo the potato famine years

3/29/2014

 
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Depiction of the Irish potato famine:

The Sketch of a Woman and Children represents Bridget O'Donnel.






 Her story is briefly this:-- '. . .we were put out last November; we owed some rent. I was at this time lying in fever. . . they commenced knocking down the house, and had half of it knocked down when two neighbours, women, Nell Spellesley and Kate How, carried me out. . . I was carried into a cabin, and lay there for eight days, when I had the creature (the child) born dead. I lay for three weeks after that. The whole of my family got the fever, and one boy thirteen years old died with want and with hunger while we were lying sick.

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Credit: Illustrated London News, December 22, 1849 

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