Ireland 2016
Studying Ireland, from the Famine to the Rising to the Troubles
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“Amongst them was a woman carrying in her arms the corpse of a fine child, and making the most distressing appeal to the passengers for aid to enable her to purchase a coffin and bury her dear little baby.”
- James Mahoney’s eye witness account of the famine, 1847
“In the name of God and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.”
- Opening line of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, 1916
“Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.”
- Republican Bobby Sands
