Day 6 – Maynooth to Dublin. Arrival of Famine walkers on Custom House Quay Famine Sculptures and Jeanie Johnston
Famine Walkers arrive in Dublin at Rowan Gillespie Famine Sculptures and Jeanie Johnston Famine...
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Videos
Day 6 – Maynooth to Dublin. Mark McGowan on Jeanie Johnston Famine Ship reflects on arrival of Strokestown emigrants in Dublin
Professor Mark McGowan (St Michael’s College, University of Toronto) on the Jeanie Johnston...
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Day 6 – Maynooth to Dublin. Christine Kinealy at Glasnevin Cemetery on the Famine and legacy of Daniel O’Connell
Professor Christine Kinealy (Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University) near...
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Day 6 – Maynooth to Dublin. Cathal Póirtéir at Leixlip Spa on Holy Wells and illness in Famine Ireland
Cathal Póirtéir at Leixlip Spa on Holy Wells and illness in Famine...
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Day 6 – Maynooth to Dublin. Christine Kinealy at Carton House on Queen Victoria’s visit during the Famine
Professor Christine Kinealy (Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University) at...
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Day 5 – Longwood to Maynooth. Mark McGowan on religion in Famine Ireland
Professor Mark McGowan (University of Toronto) in Maynooth reflecting on religion in Famine...
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Day 5 – Longwood to Maynooth. Mark McGowan on landlords and tenants in Famine Ireland
Professor Mark McGowan on the toepath to Kilcock, County Kildare, reflects on landlords and...
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Day 5 – Longwood to Maynooth. Judy Beatty sings the Old Bog Road
Judy Beatty sings the Old Bog Road in Enfield Harbour, County...
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Day 5 – Longwood to Maynooth. Owen Conlan on National Famine Way in Enfield Harbour
Owen Conlan on National Famine way in Enfield Harbour, County...
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Day 5 – Longwood to Maynooth. Cathal Póirtéir on Famine Pots
Cathal Póirtéir Famine Pots in Enfield, County...
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Day 5 – Longwood to Maynooth. Cathal Póirtéir on the impact of the Famine on the Irish Language
Cathal Póirtéir on the impact of the Famine on the Irish language (in Gaelic and...
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Day 4 – Mullingar to Longwood c.30km. Caroilin Callery meets students from The Downs National School, Co. Westmeath
Caroilin Callery walking in the footsteps of Mary Tighe from Strokestown’s missing 1,490...
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