Fleeing from Famine in Connemara by Gerard Moran

Fleeing from Famine in Connemara

Maynooth Studies in Local History

Gerard Moran

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Between 1882 and 1884 the English philanthropist and Quaker, James Hack Tuke assisted nearly 5,000 poor and destitute people from Connemara and sent them to the United States and Canada. The aim was to rescue them from perennial starvation and fam...

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