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The historic photo was displayed as part of The Irish Potato Famine exhibit hosted at Dublin's Stephen's Green Shopping Center, Dublin. The exhibition was curated by historian Gerard McCarthy ...

The museum tells the story of the Great Famine through the personal tragedies of the tenants on the Strokestown Estate and of ...

The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

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In the 1840s, Irish ... a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while crossing the Atlantic in so-called "coffin ships ...