Week of events planned for the world’s first Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac

I'm glad the name of the museum in which this collection is on display includes Great Hunger, not Famine, because the term "famine" suggests a great scarcity of food in Ireland in the late 1840s, which was NOT the case because huge amounts of grain, cattle, pigs and poultry were exported. Another misleading desscription of an historical event in Ireland is "religious conflict" when discribing the conflict in the North. This long contest is actually a struggle between Loyalists who support a foreign power and Nationalists who identify with the Irish nation. (having being raised on a farm in Ireland, I always call a spade a spade).

I'm glad they are calling it by the traditional name of the The Great Hunger rather than famine. There was plenty of food available in Ireland at the time.