In Tracing Strokestown Famine Emigrants on the Welland Canal (33:58), Professor Mark McGowan from the University of Toronto follows in the footsteps of some of the 1,490 assisted migrants from the Strokestown Park estate (now home of the National Famine Museum) in 1847 who resettled in Canada’s Niagara region to find work on the Welland Canal. He uses newly discovered … [Read more...] about Tracing Strokestown Famine Emigrants on the Welland Canal
Newsletter
In the Midst of Plenty
IA Newsletter May 20, 2023
The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, and Irish Heritage Trust have released In the Midst of Plenty in collaboration with Enchanted Croi Theatre to mark the 2023 National Famine Commemoration. The 2023 National Famine Commemoration will take place on Sunday 21 May in Milford, Co. Donegal, and will be presided over by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins. The … [Read more...] about In the Midst of Plenty
The Famine Irish in Chicago
Sunday, May 1, 2022, 7:00 pm in Ireland, 2:00 pm EST, 1:00 pm in CST, 11:00 am PST This Sunday, May 1st is the first presentation of The Great Famine Voices Film Series. An 8-week series presented by the National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park, Ireland, and the Irish Heritage Trust that runs from May 1st to June 19th. It is funded by the Government of Ireland Emigrant … [Read more...] about The Famine Irish in Chicago
From Strokestown to London
IA Newsletter June 3, 2023
In From Strokestown to London, acclaimed poet and performance artist Cherry Smyth counterpoints her impressions of female Famine Irish immigrants in London in the 1840s with her recollections of visiting the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, which helped inspire her to create Famished (Pindrop Press, 2019). She brings viewers on an evocative and spell-binding journey … [Read more...] about From Strokestown to London
Great Famine Voices Hamilton, Ontario
Great Famine Voices Hamilton, Ontario (35:49) shares stories from the city’s descendants of Famine emigrants and members of the Irish Canadian Club of Hamilton near the location of one of Canada’s forgotten Irish burial grounds in Burlington Heights. They offer moving accounts of the growth of Hamilton’s Irish community from the tragic year of 1847 and the establishment of its … [Read more...] about Great Famine Voices Hamilton, Ontario