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1940–1945: Famine in Warsaw Ghetto, as well as other ghettos and concentration camps (note: this famine was the result of deliberate denial of food to ghetto residents on the part of Nazis). [130] Occupied Poland: 1940–1948: Famine in Morocco between 1940 and 1948, because of refueling system installed by France. [131] Morocco: 200,000: ...
The Great Irish Famine (1845–1849) hit the town of Mountmellick very hard. In about 1880, Mrs Millner, a member of the Religious Society of Friends (who were a strong part of the Mountmellick community) started an industrial association to help people within the town. She employed women to stitch Mountmellick embroidery for sale.
On 6 June 2011, the panel urged Ireland to "investigate allegations that for decades women and girls sent to work in Catholic laundries were tortured." [47] [48] In response the Irish government set up a committee chaired by Senator Martin McAleese, to establish the facts of the Irish state's involvement with the Magdalene laundries. [49]
In this commentary piece, William Lambers reflects on the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and urges steps be taken to prevent future famines
Detail of the Australian Monument to The Great Irish Famine at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. Melbourne, Victoria. In 1998 a memorial in the form of a Famine Rock with plaque was erected on the foreshore of Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip at Williamstown. This was the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first boat load of Irish Famine orphan girls. [12]
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Helen Litton (née O'Sullivan) is an Irish historian and author. Her research has focused on the political history of Ireland, the Great Irish Famine, and the Easter Rising. She has a particular focus on the lives of the Daly family from Limerick, publishing biographies of Edward Daly and Thomas Clarke.
Records date back to the 1840s of women living on the Curragh nearby the army camp. Many of the women were orphans because of the Great Famine, resulting in them using prostitution to provide for themselves. The women developed a lifestyle in which money, homes, belongings, food, and childcare were shared.