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Anthony Daly
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Potato Famine Westmeath
« on: Thursday 30 November 06 16:13 UTC (UK) »
I have been researching  The Daly's in Tyrellspass  and Kilbeggan County Westmeath.

Has anyone infomation about what happened in the potato famine especially concerning County Westmeath.

Any books on the subject  any anecdotes


Many thanks

Anthony Daly
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Pat Reid
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Re: Potato Famine Westmeath
« Reply #1 on: Friday 01 December 06 08:43 UTC (UK) »
Anthony:

Caution, this may not be pretty reading.

For a very detailed, historical account try this:
http://www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/irish_pf.html

There is an increasing number of people who do not refer to this time in history as a famine but rather as the Starvation, the Great Hunger or as the Irish Holocaust.

"Potato blight, "phytophthora infestans", did spread from America to Europe in 1844, to England and then Ireland in 1845 but it didn't cause famine anywhere.  Ireland did not starve for potatoes; it starved for food.
 
Ireland starved because its food, from 40 to 70 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard and by 200,000 British soldiers (100,000 at any given moment)  The attached map shows the never-before-published names and locations in Ireland of the food removal regiments (Disposition of the Army; Public Record Office, London; et al, of which we possess photocopies).  Thus, Britain seized from Ireland's producers tens of millions of head of livestock; tens of millions of tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry & dairy products; enough to sustain 18 million persons. "

http://irishholocaust.org/

Note the map also for mass grave sites and names and locations of regiments.

Pat
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Anthony Daly
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Re: Potato Famine Westmeath
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 09 December 06 19:20 UTC (UK) »
Thank you Pat  for the warning   The facts are terrible..  I am reading up Irish History to get the background.

James Daly immigrated to Australia in 1864 leaving Tyrellspass and the family farm.   I have found two family farms  (part of an estate)  one is now derelict the other just ruins..

Do you know of any books with history of County Westmeath of this period ?

Many thanks
Anthony




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Pat Reid
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Re: Potato Famine Westmeath
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 10 December 06 07:25 UTC (UK) »
Hi Anthony:
I don't really have any suggestions on a particular book for Westmeath, sorry. You might want to look at some of the sites with old newspaper accounts.

Pat
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