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Irish Famine Memorial, Custom House Quay Dublin
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
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Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
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RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
THE POTATO famine in Ireland began in September 1846 and its consequences were so shattering that it is ingrained in the Irish psyche to this very day.
More than a million people died over the following few years, when hunger and disease became omnipresent. Up to a quarter of the population emigrated, mostly to North America.
Although potato blight was the direct cause of the crop failure of Ireland’s staple food, there was also a political dimension which exacerbated the tragedy.
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