Irish Famine and Cottier Cabins

Irish Famine and Cottier Cabins Virtual Exhibit Film. KM Productions (37:20). Hosted by the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Irish Agricultural Museum at Johnstown Castle, Estate & Gardens, and the Irish Heritage Trust. Funded by the Government of Ireland, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, 2020 Co-operation with Northern Ireland Funding Scheme.

[@irelandmyisland]

loved it thank you.

[@BrentJJ]

Thanks for this. My father's family left in 1847

[@marycahill546]

Canada here. My Irish ancestors came over in 1817 -- a couple Michael Cahill and wife Anne Shirley with 6 children who paid their own way over. Michael was given 25 acres of rocky Laurentian Shield land in Perth, Ontario as he had served as a private in the 19th dragoons. They were dirt poor in Canada, (settling eventually near Ottawa and finally on Calumet Island up river from Ottawa) but my God the dire poverty in 19th century Ireland is mind boggling. It's a wonder every Anglo Irish landowner was not murdered.