One of a number of recordings made about for the feature 'An Gorta I gConamara', broadcast 2 February 1949. Colm Ó Caodháin gives a general talk on food supplies during the famine (as Gaeilge ...
In 1847, during the dark heart of what the Irish call An Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger ... Ireland's Minister of State Thomas Byrne said the memorial would be a "permanent symbol of the enduring ...