Dreams of Skibbereen (or what the Great Famine can teach us)

The year was 1846. The potato blight wasn’t new; it had first started turning potato crops across Ireland to black mush during the harvest of 1845. But in 1845, it had blighted only about 30% of a bumper crop. Difficult, but survivable. 1846 proved to be an entirely different story. I discovered the Irish History […]

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