Ireland's Great Famine Commemoration Speech
Rembering the Victims of Ireland's #GreatFamine of 1845.
C.C.I.F.V. 16th annual march for An Gorta Mor Dublin. Commemoration as part of the National Famine Memorial Day Commemoration which took place in Sligo and all #AnGortaMor Commemorations all over Ireland and the world the Irish Global Famine Family unites on this Day. Finally Fixed in the National Calendar 3rd Sunday in May into infinity and beyond.
Remember the victims and exiles on this historic Day.
Victims Of Ireland's Great Famine
Rembering the Victims of Ireland's #GreatFamine of 1845.
C.C.I.F.V. 16th annual march for An Gorta Mor Dublin. Commemoration as part of the National Famine Memorial Day Commemoration which took place in Sligo and all #AnGortaMor Commemorations all over Ireland and the world the Irish Global Famine Family unites on this Day. Finally Fixed in the National Calendar 3rd Sunday in May into infinity and beyond.
Remember the victims and exiles on this historic Day.
Professor Christine Kinealy speaks at Great Hunger Commemoration
Professor Christine Kinealy, Quinnipiac University, academic advisor to the 2016 Great Hunger Commemoration, speaks at the conference opening before the screening of Rebecca Abbott’s documentary, Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora.
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9/11 Memorial NYC -Irish Famine Memorial, Battery Park
Recent visit to WTC, NY - joined a tour and visited St Peter's Church (where the body of Fr Judge was taken following his death). Also visited the development around Freedom Tower, walked through a passage way that was the only part of a building to survive the attack. Visited the 9/11 Memorial and searched for the naem of Kieran Gorman (a Sligo man and family friend who died that day), spent a bit of time with his name and offered a prayer. Visited the Irish Famine Memorial which is very close to WTC and enjoyed it again. It's an old cottage from Attymass, Co. Mayo that was taken down and rebuilt, stone by stone, and surrounded with vegetation and scenery you'd find in any part of Ireland. It's message centres on the decay left in the aftermath of the Famine and the way houses, left empty, fall in on themselves. It's a fine piece of work. All in all, a good visit and enjoyable few hours - tinged, of course, with some sadness.
Remembering the Famine | ‘Doolough Tragedy’ explained by Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
The Great Famine continued much longer in the West of Ireland. Particularly in isolated places like Doolough. In 1849, well after the darkest years of the famine, the poor here were in particularly destitute circumstances. Remembered for the ‘Doolough Tragedy’, this valley witnessed one of the blackest events in Irish history.
Only four miles away is Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s holiest pilgrimage site, at the foot of which is Ireland’s National Famine Memorial. But here, only a simple stone cross, the Doolough Famine Memorial, remains in memory of the victims of the famine in this area.
In the winter of 1849, hundreds of emaciated and scantily clad men, women and children walked approximately 12 miles from Louisburg to Delphi Lodge to appeal their case to the local Poor Law guardians. Tragically, the relief commissioners turned them away empty handed. On the way back, many of the walkers were lifted by the winds and carried into the lake.
The monument was erected in 1994 to remember the suffering. Today the mountains are sparsely populated but they were home to many Irish before the famine.
* See Delphi Lodge today (Established 1830)
Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin
Film Trailer | Lost Children of the Carricks
LOST CHILDREN OF THE CARRICKS | Defying the Great Irish Famine to Create a Canadian Legacy (©2019, Celtic Crossings Productions)
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70 minute film exploring Exodus, Tragedy, Acceptance and Reunion spanning 168 years
THE FILM EXPLORES –
· The mass clearances of Irish-speaking families from the Irish estates of British Foreign Secretary, Lord Palmerston at the height of the Great Famine
· The families’ assisted emigration from Sligo aboard the ill-fated ship Carricks of Whitehaven and
· Their lasting legacy on Canadian shores.
IMPORTANT THEMES
Lost Children of the Carricks is the first trilingual film to deal with the Great Irish Famine (English | Irish | French) This story focuses on an Irish-speaking community that transitioned directly to a French-speaking world. Great Famine research has focused mainly on the lifeworlds of Irish immigrants in English-speaking urban North America.
· Family Memory Across Generations
The story of the Lost Children of the Carricks and the Kavanagh family was passed from generation to generation and finally, entrusted to 80 year-old Quebecois-Irish oral historian, Georges Kavanagh.
Kavanagh’s ancestors, Patrick Kaveney and Sarah MacDonald would eventually lose their Gaelic family name. Over time, their surname Kaveney (Ó Caomhánaigh) evolved to Kavanagh in rural Québec. This alias would hinder the search for an ancestral home in Ireland five generations later.
· Similarities between the Irish Global Diaspora and Human Displacement throughout History
As with displaced and exiled people in the 21st century, the Irish exodus resulted in:
· cultural cleansing
· linguistic isolation
· oppression of religion
· inability to return home
prejudice and xenophobia
loss of identity through name change
stark landscape and environmental changes
break-up of families separated in quarantine stations and orphanages worldwide.
A 3,000 MILE VOYAGE TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC
Lord Palmerston’s tenants departed a Gaelic world in rural Sligo for a Francophone world in rural Québec, carrying their music and folklore, language and religion to an emerging Canadian nation.
One of nine coffin ships hired by Palmerston to transport 2000 of his surplus tenants to Canada, The Carricks would wreck off the frozen Gaspé coast on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in May 1847. Only 48 of the 173 passengers would reach the shore alive.
The film opens with a haunting sean nós lament and re-enacts an old tradition of leave-taking in the West of Ireland. Before departing home and clachán, emigrants brought their fire to the fire of a neighbour hoping that one day they would return home to reclaim it and, with it their place in the Old World.
For Patrick Kaveney and Sarah MacDonald’s family from Lord Palmerston’s estate in south Sligo, those embers would flicker in waiting for 168 years.
THE JOURNEY
Filmed on location in the Gaspé and in Ireland, Lost Children of the Carricks traces the extraordinary journey of Patrick Kaveney, Sarah MacDonald and their six children from their clachán in Cross, near Ballymote to Québec’s Gaspé peninsula, and the remarkable return of their francophone descendants to Ireland five generations and 168 years later.
The film follows Québécois–Irish historian Georges Kavanagh as he walks in the footsteps of his ‘grandfather’s grandfather’— through the landmarks and seamarks of The Carricks tragedy and finally down the narrow country road to his ancestral village to meet a community of cousins who had assumed that their relatives had all perished in the wreck of The Carricks.
THE EXPERTS
This trilingual film is enriched by expert testimony from leading Irish historian Professor Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh (National University of Ireland Galway) and Sligo historian Joe McGowan (Sligo Heritage), and rare archival footage of cultural life in rural Québec during the 1930s.
SOUNDTRACK
Emotional soundtracks are performed by Canadian grand master Pierre Schryer, Inis Oírr flute player Mícheál Ó hAlmhain, Clare fiddler and composer Joan Hanrahan, Prince Edward Island violinist and composer Kate Bevan-Baker, award-winning Connemara singer Áine Meenaghan, and Clare concertina player and uilleann piper Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin.
VISIT:
LostChildrenoftheCarricks.com
Laura Finlay, 2nd Secretary of Ireland's Embassy in Canada, Gaspé Carrick funeral
On July 4, 2019, the Second Secretary Ireland's Embassy in Canada Laura Finlay paid tribute to Irish diaspora on behalf of Ambassador Jim Kelly and Josepha Madigan, Cabinet Minister for Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht.
As she spoke of the international Irish diaspora joined from around the world to focus on the sacred burial of the Carricks’ victims, she gave tribute to the forthcoming film 'Lost Children of the Carricks' whose trailer was previewed at Ireland's National Heritage Commemeration in Sligo in May 2019.
On July 4, 2019 over 150 people gathered in Cap-des-Rosiers, Québec for a moving ceremony and formal burial of 21 Irish victims of the brig Carricks. The Carricks traveled from Sligo in April 1847 enroute to Canada with 28 Irish-speaking families, 173 men, women and children aboard who recently clearly from British Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston's estates in Sligo at the height of the Great Famine.
On the night of May 18, 1847, the ship was wrecked in a devastating storm off the coast of Cap-des-Rosiers. The 48 survivors were rescued and cared for by the french-speaking residents living in Cap-des-Rosiers and Gaspé, Québec. Of the 125 lost, some bodies were never found –swept away in the mighty St Lawrence river. A mass grave was quickly made to bury the others and its location was passed down in the oral memory from generation to generation.
When Parks Canada was commencing construction, bones of the victims were uncovered and thanks to the persistent advocacy by local historian and Carricks descendent Georges Kavanagh, what remained of 18 victims plus the bones of 3 children recently confirmed as Carricks victims were buried together a fresh grave adjacent to the newly located Irish memorial.
The formal bilingual ceremony included official tributes by Laura Finlay, the Second Secretary of the Embassy of Ireland in Ottawa, moving testimonies by local religious and community leaders, traditional Irish music on uilleann pipes and Gaelic prayers by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University.
In a highly emotional tribute, Georges Kavanagh, Laura Finlay and other representatives sprinkled soil that Georges had brought back from Sligo so they could be 'buried in their own soil'. The youngest participant was 11 year old Declan, gr-gr-gr- grandson of Patrick Kavanagh and Sarah MacDonald who had survived the wreck and made their lives in Gaspé.
#GrosseIlle #Carricks #Ireland
Famine remains found on Canadian beach
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thank for click Remains washed up on a Canadian beach belonged to shipwreck victims lost at sea while fleeing the Irish Famine, the Canadian government has confirmed. The bones of three children washed up on a beach at Cap-des-Rosiers following a storm in 2011. The remains of 18 others, mostly women and children, were uncovered by archaeologists on the beach in 2016. Experts have now said the remains were from the 1847 Carricks ship from County Sligo. Irish Famine: How Ulster was devastated by its impact Medieval child's remains found in grave Famine misery 'targeted Ulster's Catholic and Protestant poor' Scientists said that that the location of the remains combined with laboratory analysis confirmed the theory that they were from the Carricks shipwreck. The famine killed more than a million Irish people died and forced about a million more to emigrate after blight devastated the potato crop. The Carricks ship was carrying 180 emigrants when it sank off the coast of Cap-des-Rosiers en route to the Port of Quebec. Only 48 people survived the accident and, according to historical accounts, 87 bodies recovered from the shipwreck were buried on the beach. Parks Canada said analysis carried out by the bioarcheology laboratory at Montreal University indicated the 21 individuals found had followed a rural diet mostly based on potatoes, and suffered from diseases associated with malnutrition. The human remains will be buried near the Irish Memorial on Cap-des-Rosiers beach at a ceremony this summer. The memorial was built in 1900 in memory of the lost passengers of the Carricks shipwreck, and features the ship's bell which was found in 1968 on a beach on Quebec's north shore. Canada's National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier said the discovery was very significant for Irish families whose ancestors were Carricks passengers. 'Emotional and sensitive' During the Great Famine of Ireland in 1847, Canada became the home of many Irish immigrants, she said. The tragic events of the Carricks shipwreck are a startling reminder of just how difficult the journey was for the travellers and that not everybody was lucky enough to reach their new home. This shipwreck reflects an important part of Canadian history. Speaking to the CBC, Isabelle Ribot, associate professor of bioarchaeology at Montreal University, said the discovery was in keeping with local oral history, which suggested there was a mass grave of shipwreck victims on the beach. Our skeletons reflect what we eat, she said, adding that the bones found belonged to people who had suffered chronic health problems likely caused by the famine in Ireland. Knowing the context and knowing there are descendants of the people who survived, it is very emotional and very sensitive, she said. We are very blessed to have been able to analyze them and extract as much information as we can.
Search for Irish Famine Burial Mound
Went in search of a Famine Burial Mound at Silver Strand in Co Mayo.....
Visit to Irish famine cottage and ‘holy water’ well near Galway
04 July 2019 (Cap-des-Rosiers, QC) Burial of the Carricks’ Victims
On July 4, 2019 over 150 people gathered in Cap-des-Rosiers, Québec for a moving ceremony and formal burial of 21 Irish victims of the brig Carricks. The Carricks traveled from Sligo in April 1847 enroute to Canada with 28 Irish-speaking families, 173 men, women and children aboard who recently clearly from British Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston's estates in Sligo at the height of the Great Famine.
On the night of May 18, 1847, the ship was wrecked in a devastating storm off the coast of Cap-des-Rosiers. On the same night, another Irish coffin ship, the Miracle, travelling from Liverpool to Canada would also wreck off the Quebec coast (edge of the magdalen islands) with great loss of life.
The 48 survivors were rescued and cared for by the french-speaking residents living in Cap-des-Rosiers and Gaspé, Québec. Of the 125 lost, some bodies were never found –swept away in the mighty St Lawrence river. A mass grave was quickly made to bury the others and its location was passed down in the oral memory from generation to generation.
When Parks Canada was commencing construction, bones of the victims were uncovered and thanks to the persistent advocacy by local historian and Carricks descendent Georges Kavanagh, what remained of 18 victims plus the bones of 3 children recently confirmed as Carricks victims were buried together a fresh grave adjacent to the newly located Irish memorial.
The formal bilingual ceremony included official tributes by Laura Finlay, the Second Secretary of the Embassy of Ireland in Ottawa, moving testimonies by local religious and community leaders, traditional Irish music on uilleann pipes and Gaelic prayers by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University.
In a highly emotional tribute, Georges Kavanagh, Laura Finlay and other representatives sprinkled soil that Georges had brought back from Sligo so they could be 'buried in their own soil'. The youngest participant was 11 year old Declan, gr-gr-gr- grandson of Patrick Kavanagh and Sarah MacDonald who had survived the wreck and made their lives in Gaspé.
As Gearóid played Amhrán na bhFiann (Irish national anthem) on concertina, the tiny white child-size coffin was lowered into the earth. When quiet returned to the memorial, Gearóid crossed the road to the old cemetery for a final tribute to Sarah MacDonald, who despite multiple tragedies, built a new life in Canada and lived until 85 years old.
Watch his musical tribute here:
LOST CHILDREN OF THE CARRICKS (documentary)
Celtic Crossings Productions has produced a documentary chronicling the journey of the Carricks for upcoming release. Written and directed by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, with consultation by Joe McGowan (Sligo Heritage), expert academic engagement, and most importantly with Georges Kavanagh and his family.
Find out more and how you can get involved.
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Doagh Famine Village- Co.Donegal- Ireland
The Famine Village tells the story of a family and community living on the edge and surviving, from the Famine of the 1840s to the present time.
The Great 'Potato Famine' part 1 (Irish Hedge School History #5)
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This is show #5 of 21, from our History of Ireland, as taught from the hedge rows. From the Irish Roots Cafe with Peter Reilly Adams and Michael O'Laughlin. Todays episode begins a discussion of the 'Great Famine' in Ireland, which peaked in 1847. It was not the first famine for Ireland however. The first of two episodes on the famine, including the role of the potato in Ireland, and from whence it came. Why was the disaster that hit Ireland so terrible.... and what were the other reasons it his so hard... How it came to be that the Irish were exiled from there own lands...
The Irish Roots Cafe and Hedge school features Irish Genealogy; History; travel and traditional Irish song, including old style Sean Nós singing. Founded by Michael C. O'Laughlin in 1978 with headquarters at
Here are some random notes for the podcasts (5 & 6).
The show covers much more. I recommend listening.
Changing the Face of Ireland.
Several events have had great impact on Irish history.
We have covered elsewhere the Flight of the Earls and the
Plantation in Ulster, Cromwellian times, the Battle of the
Boyne and the Treaty of Limerick (1691). The Irish famine
of 1845- 1852 is another such event. We will talk about that
in these two sessions.
From whence it came
The Potato came from the Mexican Central Highlands, by 1843
in Philadelphia, and New York. Bad Seed Potatoes sent to
Belgium farmers in 1845, etc.. Phytopthora Infestans is the
name of the disease which is a oomycete or fungus
Potatoes had become the sole food for 1/3 of Ireland. Famines
happened before and after the great famine. i.e. 1820’s, 1879.....
This famine reached Ireland in 1845.
1845- SE counties affected first, Luckily 1/6 of crop was
harvested before it struck, so milder affects.
Peel ordered 100,000 pounds of Indian Meal to help.
No one died of simple starvation 1845-46.
(per Gill History of Ireland)
1846- Total Crop failure. Whig party assumes power. Hands off
attitude.
Work Programs supported, but not so much food.
Landlords evicting tenants making things worse.
1847- Crop not as bad, but plague, disease and death in the streets till ‘52.
Canada: 16,000 of 100,000 passengers died en route or on
arrival.
1848- Crop failure worsens.
1849- Crop improves
1850- Potatoe disease is on the wane, but by now, more Irish in NYC than
Dublin.
1841-1851- Several million Irish people dead or abroad.
1851- 1/4 of Liverpool was Irish, 1/3 of Toronto was Irish
Perhaps 1 million dead, not from pure starvation,
but from typhus, fever, dropsy, and cholera
Worst Hit: Sligo, Leitrim, Mayo, Galway, Clare, Limerick, Cork, Kerry, parts of Tipperary, Cavan, Laois.
Immigration: Over 100,000 per year 1847-54. By 1860 = 48,000.
Germans then became highest foreign born in
numbers.
Some Destinations:
United States / Grosse Ile Canada / Earl Grey in Australia
United States:
The Largest Foreign born group in the U.S. from 1800-1850 (total)
First Ghettos Formed in all major U.S. cities (except Salt Lake City)
Old Irish Settlers did not always identify with the new diseased immigrants.
We now romanticize, perhaps forgetting terrible conditions.
Many came to US after initial arrival in Canada.
80% settled in cities (Mass., NY, PA, IL.)
1/4 of population in Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
Volumes of ads for workers and missing friends in the papers.
(Boston Pilot, Freemans Journal.)
Political control of police and fire departments, Street building
crews, labor.
Railroad: ‘An Irishman buried under every tie” ‘Shanty Irish”
(Shanty Pole)
We also note ‘souperism’, Grosse Ile on the St. Lawrence Seaway;
The aftermath of the famine, memorials, evictions, and the
Earl Grey Scheme which mostly female orphans from Ireland
were shipped to Australia to escape the misery.
Later sessions will deal more extensively with the immigration
of the Irish to the far corners of the earth...
Thanks,
Mike O’Laughlin
Final Lament for the Victims of the Carricks of Whitehaven (Gaspé, QC)
On July 4, 2019 over 150 people gathered in Cap-des-Rosiers, Québec for a moving ceremony and formal burial of 21 Irish victims of the brig Carricks. The Carricks traveled from Sligo in April 1847 enroute to Canada with 28 Irish-speaking families, 173 men, women and children aboard who recently clearly from British Foreign Minister Lord Palmerston's estates in Sligo at the height of the Great Famine.
On the night of May 18, 1847, the ship was wrecked in a devastating storm off the coast of Cap-des-Rosiers. On the same night, another Irish coffin ship, the Miracle, travelling from Liverpool to Canada would also wreck off the Quebec coast (edge of the magdalen islands) with great loss of life.
The 48 survivors were rescued and cared for by the french-speaking residents living in Cap-des-Rosiers and Gaspé, Québec. Of the 125 lost, some bodies were never found –swept away in the mighty St Lawrence river. A mass grave was quickly made to bury the others and its location was passed down in the oral memory from generation to generation.
When Parks Canada was commencing construction, bones of the victims were uncovered and thanks to the persistent advocacy by local historian and Carricks descendent Georges Kavanagh, what remained of 18 victims plus the bones of 3 children recently confirmed as Carricks victims were buried together a fresh grave adjacent to the newly located Irish memorial.
The formal bilingual ceremony included official tributes by Laura Finlay, the Second Secretary of the Embassy of Ireland in Ottawa, moving testimonies by local religious and community leaders, traditional Irish music on uilleann pipes and Gaelic prayers by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish Studies at Concordia University.
In a highly emotional tribute, Georges Kavanagh, Laura Finlay and other representatives sprinkled soil that Georges had brought back from Sligo so they could be 'buried in their own soil'. The youngest participant was 11 year old Declan, gr-gr-gr- grandson of Patrick Kavanagh and Sarah MacDonald who had survived the wreck and made their lives in Gaspé.
Watch his gravesite musical tribute:
LOST CHILDREN OF THE CARRICKS (documentary)
Celtic Crossings Productions has produced a documentary chronicling the journey of the Carricks for upcoming release. Written and directed by Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, with consultation by Joe McGowan (Sligo Heritage), expert academic engagement, and most importantly with Georges Kavanagh and his family.
Find out more and how you can get involved.
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National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017
21st February 2017
021017 Ireland Connacht
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Mayo Rising - Irish Luxury Tours
Uppercut productions - Video Production Galway
A 7-hour day tour to discover Mayo, the region most devastated by the great hunger. This experience includes a guided tour with Tom Hennigan who represents the 6th generation of his family who have survived on a 12-acre smallholding of land. Tom will recount the family’s incredible history, tell stories about life in the region and focus upon the events that led to the Easter Rising and how Mayo was affected by this. You will also enjoy lunch in Laherdaun, a behind the scenes tour of the Nephin distillery concept and VIP whiskey tasting le Saineolaí Fuisce (whiskey expert)
Highlights
Operates Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 2nd July to 30th August 2016
7 Hour tour
Guaranteed small group (maximum group size is 7)
Expert Driver/Guide
Luxury Vehicle
A 2-hour private guided tour of the Hennigan Smallholding with the Historian and Seanchaí (custodian of tradition) with a focus upon the events leading up to the Easter Rising.
Gourmet Lunch in Laherdaun using fresh locally sourced produce
Guests will enjoy a behind the scenes tour of The Nephin Distillery Concept and the processes of whiskey making and see the work of Ireland’s only master cooper.
VIP Whiskey Tasting le Saineolaí Fuisce (whiskey expert)
Camera and Editing : Dave Cooley & Paul Vignoles
Bassline Studios
Great Famine (Ireland)
In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine because one-third of the population was then solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons. During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight.
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LOST CHILDREN OF THE CARRICKS | A Documentary of Irish Courage and Canadian Legacy
A brief clip from a documentary to be released in Spring 2019 by Professor Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin, the Johnson Chair in Québec and Canadian Irish Studies Concordia University, Montréal (DrGearoid.com)
The Counties of Ireland before 1922
The Parnell Monument has the counties of Ireland before 1922...