Sometimes, during a lesson, one thing leads to another and you end up talking about something you hadn’t planned. That was the case in our last class, when after talking about Halloween we ended up talking about the Irish Famine, also known as Potato Famine. Many of you had never heard of it but showed your interested in knowing a bit more. Be that as it may, I have decided to post an instructive video I've found on youtube. The music playing is called 'Famine song', singing The Choral Project.
While searching the net looking for some useful info I bumped into this in The History Place site, if you've been bitten by the bug, go ahead! "Ireland is in your hands, in your power. If you do not save her, she cannot save herself. I solemnly call upon you to recollect that I predict with the sincerest conviction that a quarter of her population will perish unless you come to her relief." Daniel O'Connell to the British House of Commons, 1847.
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