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/