Tag Archives: Great Famine

This week’s crème de la crème — June 4, 2016

Posted on June 4, 2016 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs A picture of Ontario farming in 1881 by Jane E. MacNamara on Where the story takes me. Canadian Territories Online Historical Newspapers Summary by Kenneth R. Marks on The Ancestor Hunt. … Continue reading →

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Best-selling novel about Irish orphan in Quebec now available in English

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Gail Dever

The first volume of the best-selling Quebec historical fiction series about a young girl who left Ireland with her family during the Great Famine is now available in English in your favorite online bookstores. Fanette: Uptown Conquest tells the story … Continue reading →

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Ireland pays tribute to New Brunswick’s help during Great Famine

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Gail Dever

Last week, Ireland’s Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltach Heather Humphreys toured New Brunswick, making stops in Saint John, Miramichi and Moncton to pay tribute to the people of Canada who helped Irish immigrants escape the Famine of the 1840s. The … Continue reading →

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Group wants church bells across Ireland to ring for Great Famine victims

Posted on August 21, 2015 by Gail Dever

According to the Irish Post, the Committee for the Commemoration of Irish Famine Victims in Dublin is “determined to have every church of every religious denomination toll their bells at the same time across the entire island of Ireland to … Continue reading →

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U of Toronto tracking families of 1,490 people forced to leave Ireland during Famine

Posted on April 22, 2015 by Gail Dever

In May 1847, 1,490 people left the estate in Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland, and walked 155 kilometres to Dublin and were then transported to Liverpool where they boarded four coffin ships bound for Quebec. At least half of the passengers … Continue reading →

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New exhibit in Connecticut tells story of Montreal’s Grey Nuns who helped the Famine Irish

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Gail Dever

Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut will open a new exhibition, Saving the Famine Irish: The Grey Nuns and the Great Hunger, on Wednesday, April 1, in the university’s Arnold Bernhard Library. The exhibition tells the … Continue reading →

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New park to honour Toronto doctor who helped Irish immigrants during Great Famine

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Gail Dever

A new park will be erected in downtown Toronto in memory of those who helped Irish immigrants who fled the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s. It will be located in front of a 47-storey condo at the corner … Continue reading →

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