Famine Museum an inspiring tribute - world’s largest collection of Irish famine art at Quinnipiac, CT

I'm happy to see that the Irish (through Irish-America) are being as diligent in keeping the memory of the Great Hunger alive as the Jews have been in keeping the memory of their holocaust alive. Evidently it would appear that it was always the agenda (overt or hidden) of British colonial poweres in Ireland to pursue a policy of mass evictions and land clearance. The brainchild of English King James I in the 17th century, brutally actualised by the gentleman farmer from East Anglia (Citizen Cromwell during his 11 year English republic and 9 month stay in Ireland), and continued througout the 18th century, before Ireland's national extinction by constitutional sleight-of-hand in the Act of Union, 1800/'01.

I was at the opening last Friday along with some of the other events during the week. The previous posters are correct with regard to the British government policies of the time. It was made clear by many of the speakers I heard over the week and by the exhibits in the museum. I think the spot light has been turned on the truth and this amazing museum will be force that makes everyone understand what happened and the effect it has had on Ireland ever since. I strongly advise everyone to make the trip there. It will be well worth it.

When are we going to stop calling this a famine and call it genocide. How could you have a famine in one of the most fertile lands on earth think about it?

Not enough people realize that it was genocide, not a famine. Hopefully, this museum will make people understand. I'm planning to go. I need to see how the tragedy of An Gorta Mór is being presented. This is big.

Cahir O'Doherty, The title of your article incorrectly describes the Great Hunger Museum as the "Famine Museum". Can I suggest that you become familiar with the writings of John Mitchell which firmly established the widespread view that An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger) was deliberate murder of the Irish by the British? Can I also suggest that you become familiar with a 1996 report written by Francis A. Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois which concluded that the British government deliberately pursued a race and ethnicity-based policy aimed at destroying the group commonly known as the Irish people and that the policy of mass starvation amounted to genocide per the Hague convention of 1948. On the strength of Boyle's report, the U.S. state of New Jersey included the famine in the "Holocaust and Genocide Curriculum" at the secondary tier.