Feb 1, 2019 · A short list of facts and figures, from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, which outlines what happened to the food in Ireland and how it affected the Irish people. A close up of the Famine...

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a ...

A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or ready available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty, such as during economic depression or war, or by natural disasters such as drought.

One of the many tragic ironies of the Great Hunger in Ireland is that as people died of starvation, thousands of tons of grain that could have saved them was instead shipped out of the country. How could such a seemingly perverse and inhuman policy be allowed to continue?

These recipes were prepared in due form, and made up with suets, fats, sweets, and spices, so that the Laird John Russell himself could “ate em.” A great and grand meeting of lords and nobility was held, called by the poor, the “yaller Indin maitin;” and a …

This expression masked a shocking reality: Irish Catholics forced to renounce their faith in exchange for a meal. This slogan, engraved in the collective memory, still has a sad resonance in Irish society today. Irish soup kitchens were established in the early years of …

May 12, 2013 · The staple diet of potatoes that the poorer Irish were used to was quite nutritious, but the Indian meal lacked Vitamin C, leading to many people developing scurvy. However, the meal undoubtedly did help reduce the death rate by starvation in that year.

In November of 1845 each pauper on average received under 4 ounces of meat per week. Supper, the final meal of the day consisted of bread and tea. It can be seen from the above 'menu' that the Workhouse inmate's lot, even preceding the worst ravages of …

Indian meal (aka Corn or Maize meal) was first imported from America around the early 1800s to assist when turnips and potatoes got scarce. Some say that it was sent here by charitable North American Indians to help the poor Irish during the Famine, hence the name "Indian Meal".

From the Spring of 1847, until the following Autumn, this food, a kind of Indian meal stirabout or gruel, was issued from soup kitchens, established throughout the length and breadth of Ireland.