Cathal Póirtéir on Hungry Spots or Hungry Grass Irish Famine folklore recounted to Famine walkers in Ballynacargy area of Westmeath
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Anthony Russell (National Famine Commemoration Committee) on Ireland’s National Famine Commemoration Day at Innes River Viaduct near Abbeyshrule, Co. Longford:
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Famine Walkers with students from Colehill Mixed national school in Abbeyshrule, County Longford (with music by Declan O’Rourke: Go Domhain i do Chuimhne):
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Professor Christine Kinealy (Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University) on food exports along the Royal Canal in Famine Ireland:
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Professor Mark McGowan (University of Toronto) reflects on the harrowing conditions Strokestown’s missing 1,490 emigrants would have suffered in Abbeyshrule, County Longford, and along the Royal Canal as they walked to Dublin in May 1847:
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Brian Hand (Head of Sculpture and Expanded Practice, National College of Art and Design) on Famine art and sculpture at vantage point of last view of Sliabh Bawn in County Longford along the National Famine Way:
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Declan O’Rourke’s Go Domhain i do Chuimhne accompanies arrival of Famine walkers in Clondra, Co. Longford, along the National Famine Way:
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Eviction of the 1,490 from Denis Mahon’s estate at Strokestown Park in May 1847:
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Caroilin Callery on the Famine in Tarmonbarry:
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
Cathal Póirtéir in Cloonshanagh Bog on the landscapes of Famine Ireland and potato blight. He recites three verses in Gaelic from Na Fataí Bána (The White Potatoes) by Peatsaí Ó Callanáin:
Dr Jason King is academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust. He has previously taught at NUI Galway, the University of Limerick, the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, NUI Maynooth, and NUI Cork.
He specializes in Great Irish Famine digital content:
http://nationalfamineway.ie/
http://faminearchive.nuigalway.ie/
