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DEDICATION & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This curriculum is dedicated to the millions of Irish who
suffered and perished in the Great Starvation. It is also
dedicated to those who escaped by emigration, and to the
great Irish Diaspora worldwide.
The Irish Famine Curriculum would not have been possible
without the work of New Jersey Senator James E. McGreevey,
Rutgers Economics Professor Jack Worrall, historian Dr.
Christine Kinealy, teacher Jim Masker, and author Liz
Curtis.
We express our gratitude to Eoin McKiernan, Fr. Des Wilson,
the late Dennis Clark, and the late Michael J. Kane, who
have shown us their Faith by their Works.

"Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shown, and
there alone..."
- W.B. Yeats, 1921

TEACHER'S INTRODUCTION
Between 1845 and 1850, more than a million Irish people
starved to death while massive quantities of food were being
exported from their country. A half million were evicted
from their homes during the potato blight, and a million and
a half emigrated to America, Britain and Australia, often
on-board rotting, overcrowded "coffin ships". This is the
story of how that immense tragedy came to pass.
The necessary historical and political context for a study
of the Irish Famine is provided to you in the Teacher and
Student Summary, immediately following the Table of
Contents.

It would be very difficult for the student to understand any
of the six study units that follow without first reading the
Summary. If time constraints only permit the study of one or
two sections of this curriculum, the Summary should be used
first. Thank you for all your efforts to make this history
come alive.

Prepared by the Irish Famine Curriculum Committee, James Mullin,
Chairman: 757 Paddock Path, Moorestown,

Download the eBook 117 pages

Download Unit 1 - Laws that Impoverished

Download Unit 2 - Racism

Download Unit 3 - Mass Eviction

Download Unit 4 - Mortality Rates and The Horror

Download Unit 5 - Emigration, Departure, Crossing

Download Unit 6 - Genocide

Download Unit 7 - Poetry Inspired by The Great Famine

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