12 thoughts on “An Gorta Mor”

1. The Great Famine. When so many of my mother’s ancestors and my Mr’s, people came to Dundee. An absolute holocaust of its day.

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   1. See The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
      by Thomas Keneally

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2. Michael, a truly horrific figure of deaths … with only that possibility on the horizon no wonder so many had to emigrate.

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   1. See “The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World” by Thomas Keneally

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      1. I will and have just found a second hand copy for sale. Thought I recognised the name – Thomas Keneally of Schindler’s List fame! Reckon this book might be slightly similar vein as Swedish writer Vilhelm Moeberg’s novel ‘The Emigrants’ based on a family part of the quarter million Swedes who left their country owing to starvation and death.

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      2. Keneally is the same author, in the forward he attributes the urge to write “Shame” from his work on “List”.

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3. Very sad.

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   1. Good Morning, Theresa. See The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World
      by Thomas Keneally

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4. My Mother was Irish and she gave a book called “The Potato Famine” to my Father. He was shocked and upset by it.

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   1. See “The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World” by Thomas Keneally

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      1. Ok. Thanks for the reference.

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      2. My pleasure, Anne. More to come

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