roots


New York Times rave review for Quinnipiac’s Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum

Says it provides unique perspectives of an incredible disaster

3 comments

Return to article

Page 1 of 1 pages
I went to the museum, the first day it opened to the public. It's beauty is a stark contrast to the horror of what happened to the Irish during those black years. Having had great grandparents born in 1844 in Limerick City, I can't, don't want to imagine what horror they had seen. No wonder no-one talked about it. You can't call a potato failure a famine. The rest of the crops were fine and plentiful - the problem being they were shipped to England. That is why people call the starvation of the Irish a genocide.
Grosse Ile, a day trip outside Quebec city, has a moving memorial cemetery and exhibit. in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, is a site which have lying around some of the feeding pots. In Battery Park, New York City, there is the Irish Memorial, where one can meditate. If the stones could weep.
A negative attitude!There is absolutelky NO evidence that the Jews wandered for years in the Sinai: Rabbi Wolpe argues that his views are based on the fact that no archeological digs have produced evidence of the Jews wandering the Sinai Desert for forty years, and that excavations in Israel consistently show settlement patterns at variance with the Biblical account of a sudden influx of Jews from Egypt.And, yet,on this myth Palestine was given to the atheist Zionists. The evidence IS overwhelmimg in Ireland. The Workhouses are still standing. Indeed, the roundtower which commemorates WW1 Irish dead at Ypres is made from the stones from Mullingar workhouse. If somebody is suggesting that the evidence is sparse, come and see the areas of Liverpool where the Irish dead were tipped. Liverpool's St Anthony's Church beacame a centre for just throwing the corpses over its walls. The city was called 'The PriestKiller' - 10 in one year. Quinnipiac's University needs some lessons in research. The grisly evidence was shipped to Liverpool and the fittest made it to the USA where they were also unwelcome.
Page 1 of 1 pages




Log into IrishCentral with your Facebook account


or sign-in directly

E-Mail:
Password:
 Remember me Forgot my password
Not a member? Register Now!
print this article Print
email this articleE-mail