The Embankment, Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850. Emigrants leaving Britain for the colonies: United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia or New...
Keillines, near General Thompson's Property, 1850. Poverty in Ireland during the Potato Famine. Scene ', on the road between Maam and Clifden, in...
Father Mathew comforts a famine stricken poor family in Ireland in 1845. Theobald Mathew, 1790–1856. Irish Catholic teetotalist reformer, popularly...
Villagers at Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland during the Great Famine, Ireland, 1846. Original publication: Illustrated London News - pub 10th...
Cartoon commenting on the Irish Potato Famine. England, epitomised by John Bull, taking bread to the starving Irish peasants. The potatoes on which...
Father Mathew comforting a starving family during the Irish potato famine of the 1840's. Father Mathew worked unceasingly to relieve the suffering...
Crowds outside a government depot in Cork, Ireland, where Indian corn is being sold by the British government, 1846. Food was short after the failure...
Taking the pulse of a sick Irish emigrant on board ship bound for North America during the potato famine of the 1840s, c1890. Wood engraving.
Collecting limpets and seaweed for food in west of Ireland. Failure of the potato crop in previous year had made condition of these people desparate....
Sketch in a House at Fahey's Quay, Ennis - the Widow Connor and her Dying Child, 1850. Suffering during the Irish Potato Famine: 'In Ennis I went...
Irish emigrants embarking for America at Waterloo Docks, Liverpool, 1850. The failure of the Irish potato crop in the 1840s led to a devastating...
The aftermath of famine, Ireland , 1886. Distress in Ireland as people Collect limpets and seaweed for food in west of Ireland. Failure of the potato...
Distress in Ireland, Collecting limpets and seaweed for food in west of Ireland. Failure of the potato crop in previous year had made condition of...
Engraving depicting a scene onboard an Irish emigrant ship bound for North America during the potato famine of the 1840s. The emigrants were so...
Republican mural on Upper Falls Road in Belfast argues that Britain was responsible for genocide during the potato famine of 1845-1849. This is one...
Evicted Irish peasant family, 1848. Irish peasant family unable to pay rent because of failure of potato crop due to blight, finding shelter in a...
Irish Potato Famine: Government potato store being attacked by starving inhabitants of Galway. The potato crop which, provided the staple food for...
�The Man with the Weather Eye - Being a Correct Likeness of the Celebrated Mr Murphy�. Satire on Ireland�s potato famine and variable weather...
Irish potato famine memorial at Abbeystrewry cemetery, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, Irish Republic.
An illustration featuring Chief Secretary for Ireland Arthur Balfour addressing the potato famine behind which stands two Irish politicians,...
Distress in Ireland, Collecting limpets and seaweed for food in west of Ireland. Failure of the potato crop in previous year had made condition of...
Cabin of Pat. MacNamara, Village of Clear, 1850. Destruction of rural homes by the 'levellers', during the Irish Potato Famine. The poor were blamed...
Irish Potato Famine, Government potato store being attacked by starving inhabitants of Galway. From The Illustrated London News, June 1842. Wood...
An engraving depicting an evening wake for the wife of an Irish cottager. Friends, relations and neighbours gather around the woman's coffin to...
Evicted Irish peasant family, 1848. Irish peasant family unable to pay rent because of failure of potato crop due to blight, evicted from their...
An engraving commenting on famine in Ireland- a woman collects seaweed for food on the west coast. Dated 19th century.
Irish potato famine memorial at Abbeystrewry cemetery, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, Irish Republic.
Irish potato famine memorial at Abbeystrewry cemetery, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, Irish Republic.
Irish potato famine memorial at Abbeystrewry cemetery, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, Irish Republic.
Cartoon depicting Britannia holding the wolf of starvation from the door of the Irish peasants. Illustrated by John Tenniel an English illustrator,...
Ruins in the Village of Carihaken, County of Galway, 1850. Destruction of rural homes by the 'levellers', during the Irish Potato Famine. The poor...
The Workhouse, Clifden, 1850. Poverty in Ireland during the Potato Famine. 'Clifden itself is an exotic in an unfavourable climate. It was reared by...
Irish Potato Famine, Government potato store being attacked by starving inhabitants of Galway. From "The Illustrated London News", June 1842. Wood...
Starving townspeople raid a potato store in Galway during a famine, Ireland, 13th June 1842. Food riots occurred all day in the city. Original...
An engraving depicting the forging of pikes in a village smithy during unrest in Ireland. Dated 19th century.
An engraving depicting the distress in Ireland during the Potato Famine. An evicted family searches for potatoes in a stubble field. The famine...
Irish potato famine memorial at Abbeystrewry cemetery, Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, Irish Republic.
Ship's bosun making final preparations aboard the Jeanie Johnston in Customs Quay, Dublin prior to sailing for Belfast tonight. * The 150ft...
Government potato store being attacked by starving inhabitants of Galway. From "The Illustrated London News", June 1842. Wood engraving.
Irish peasant girl guarding the family's last few possessions after eviction for non-payment of rent. From The Illustrated London News, April 1886....
Cartoon commenting on the Irish Potato Famine. England, epitomised by John Bull, taking bread to the starving Irish peasants. The potatoes on which...
Potato Famine: Irish peasant family unable to pay rent because of failure of potato crop due toPotato Blight , evicted from their tumbledown cottage....
Irish Potato Famine, Government potato store being attacked by starving inhabitants of Galway. From "The Illustrated London News", June 1842. Wood...
Potato Famine, Irish peasant family unable to pay rent because of failure of potato crop due to blight, finding shelter in a hedgerow the day after...
Taking the pulse of a sick Irish emigrant on board ship bound for North America during the potato famine of the 1840s. Wood engraving c.1890.
Irish emmigrants leaving for Liverpool on board the paddle steamers Nimrod and Athlone, during the Great Famine , Ireland, 1851. Original publication...
Potato Famine: Irish peasant girl guarding the family's last few possessions after eviction for non-payment of rent. From The Illustrated London...
Old Chapel Lane, Skibbereen, County Cork during The Great Famine which was caused by the failure of the Irish potato crop and British government...
Potato Famine, Irish peasant family unable to pay rent because of failure of potato crop due to blight, evicted from their tumbledown cottage. From...
The Potato Blight, 1847. Found in the collection of the The National Folklore Collection, Dublin. Artist MacDonald, Daniel .
Irish tenants evicted by landlords from their smallholding and made homeless for the non-payment of rent during The Great Famine which was caused by...