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resource / Famine Reports, 1845
Famine Records, 1845. Comprising an extract from Walks After Wild Flowers (1852); 'The Potato in Europe (1565-1845)' - a tabulation of use and disease; maps showing extent of blight in U.S. and Canada 1843-45 and in Europe in 1845. Constabulary Circular re information on 1845 crop failure;...
political cartoon / Left Out in the Cold, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 24 February 1883. Titled 'Left Out in the Cold'. Irish Want to Lord Chancellor, who has been reading the Queen's speech. Referencing the Famine.
political cartoon / A Scotch Fling at Ireland, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 29 September 1883. Titled 'A Scotch Fling at Ireland'. Referencing a ban on the exportation of cattle from Ireland, with reference to Foot and Mouth Disease.
political cartoon / The Royal Wonder - Worker
Political cartoon, undated, 'Zoz'. Titled 'The Royal Wonder - Worker spreads life's true mystery round us evermore, seen by no eye, it lies all eyes before'. (Schiller). Artwork by Spex. Probably 1880s.
framed painting / An Gorta, 1847
A large framed painting of the Irish Famine in 1847 by Maurice MacGonigle (1900 - 1979), a modern Irish painter. The painting is modernist, with vibrant colours and a graphic style depicting a woman in the centre holding a baby, stone walls all leading to her and many people all around working in...
political cartoon / English Representation and Irish Fact, 1883
Political cartoon, Supplement from the Weekly Freeman, 20 January 1883. Titled 'English Representation and Irish Fact'. Depicting two contrasting scenes; a wealthy family dining, and a poor family in a dilapidated home with a pot of sea weed.
political cartoon / How Long O Lord?, 1888
Political cartoon, supplement with the Weekly Freeman, 18 February 1888. Titled 'How Long O Lord?'. Depicting a male, 80 years of age, named Bartley Geary, residing at Kilkerrin, Connemara, was evicted from his dwelling house under the new Land Act on Thursday last by order of the magistrates. He...
political cartoon / Helping the Famine at Falcarragh, 1890
Political cartoon, supplement to the United Ireland, 27 September 1890. Titled 'Helping the Famine at Falcarragh'. Black and white print depicting 'Police and Emergency men cutting and carting away the unripe crop of oats sown by an Olphert Tenant previous to his eviction'. Onlookers watch in the...
political cartoon / Stone for Bread - Scene in Glencolumbkille, 1883
Political cartoon from the Weekly Freeman, 17 February 1883. Titled 'Stone for Bread - Scene in Glencolumbkille'. One of a set of fourteen Irish political cartoons, December 1881, February, June, August and October 1882 and February, March, August, September, October, November, December 1883....
sermon / Father T. Burke
Sermon of Father T. Burke O.P., printed on satin, 1883. Titled 'Father Burke's Last Sermon On the Starving Children of Donegal'. From the Freeman's Journal, 23 June 1883. Framed and glazed. Loan receipt no. 95 sent.