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Ireland's Great Hunger

Articles published online about the failure of the potato crop in Ireland during the years 1845-1852 and the devastating effect on Irish society.

Loretto Leary

Short Story Getting Published

Delighted to let you all know that my short story Billet-Deux has been accepted for publication by The MacGuffin and is currently slated...

Loretto Leary

Thousands Are Sailing

I've immersed myself in shipping history today. Specifically ships that sailed from the port of Galway after April in 1848. I need to...

Loretto Leary

The fiction of a "famine."

I will be finishing up #StainedGlass in the next 6 months. My research for it taught me so many horrific events during the Great Hunger...

Illustrated London News, December 22, 1849, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

James Mahony
The Illustrated London News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons