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Movies US Ship Brought Famine Relief to Ireland (GENOCIDE by The English)

Rhode Island Woman's Quest Uncovers Hundreds of Irish Famine Graves

Irish Central 31 May 2016.





Between 600 and 900 long-lost Irish immigrant graves discovered in a seemingly empty field.



Digging up your family’s past can come with a disclaimer: be careful, you never know what you may unearth about those who came before you.

For Rhode-island woman Annie McMullen, that disclaimer had an amazing materialization, as she unearthed hundreds of previously lost and forgotten Irish graves in the US while on a quest to trace her husband’s Irish ancestry.

In an apparently empty field, covered by grass and just a few inches of soil that had accumulated over the years, lie approximately 600-900 gravestones marking the second resting place of bodies previously disinterred from the Irish Catholic Cemetery in Waltham, Massachusetts.

McMullen’s journey began a few years ago when she decided to trace her in-laws journey to the US from Ireland and learn more about their time there. Researching back through the family tree, she was led to Waltham, the home chosen by her husband’s great-great-grandfather and his three brothers in the 1800s as they fled the potato famine.

One of the brothers, Charles, died in a freak accident in Waltham and was buried in the local Catholic cemetery, one of the main internment sites for Irish Catholics in the area, Waltham’s Church Street Cemetery.

Traveling to visit the grave, it was immediately apparent that the area outlined in the records as a cemetery no longer served the same purpose. Although St. Mary’s Church still lay on the grounds, in lieu of headstones, stood houses and even a school.


Once again returning to her research to uncover the mystery of the disappearing cemetery, McMullen searched through newspaper archives looking for mentions of the site until she came across a news article from the mid-20th century outlining an agreement between the Archdiocese of Boston and the local school to use the land for an extension.

As a result, 1,000 bodies were disinterred from the original graveyard and relocated to the Calvary Cemetery in 1947.


Further disappointment struck as McMullen reached the Calvary Cemetery to be greeted with a largely empty field but for one or two old headstones. Where were the bodies of the hundreds of Irish immigrants taken from Church Street? Her research had told her that the graves were laid in rows with headstones lying flat over the coffins.

“That seemed odd, this big grassy area and only four headstones,” McMullen told the Waltham News Tribune.


Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she searched under the soil and began to find the markers hidden under dirt and grass, left neglected and forgotten since 1947. And here they were; immigrants from all counties of Ireland, hidden in a seemingly empty field.





Hidden Grave in Waltham. Image: Waltham News Tribune.



Wanting to continue in uncovering the hundreds of buried headstones, McMullen pledged to finish off what she’d started and return the graveyard to its former glory.

Reaching out to Archie Bennett, Waltham historic preservationist; Sheila Fitzpatrick of the Waltham Historical Society; and The Irish Ancestral Research Association, they together decided to begin a restoration project to remove the years of neglect lying over the Irish immigrants’ final resting place, with work beginning on September 19 and 20.

“I began to wonder about all the individuals who have been searching their Irish family history and have not been able to find where their family members are buried,” she writes.

“I am hopeful that in doing so we may be able to connect many Waltham/Newton [residents] and other individuals of Irish descent with their ancestors.”

The archdiocese is also believed to be erecting a memorial monument on the site to remember all those long forgotten in its soil.
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Update The Irish Famine WAS Genocide by The British

Proving The Irish Famine Was Genocide by The British

Irish Central, August 2017.





Famine memorial, The Quays, Dublin. Photocall Ireland


The most significant section of Tim Pat Coogan’s book on the Irish Famine is not his own writing, but his printing of the United Nations definition of genocide.

“The Famine Plot”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, was released in America and Coogan should have been here to launch it but in a separate but equally confounding plot, he was denied a visa to come here by the American Embassy in Dublin.

The conclusion from his book is unmistakable.

Ireland’s most prominent historian, who has previously created definitive portraits of both Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera, has now pointed the finger squarely at the British during the Famine and stated it was genocide.

It is a big charge, but Coogan is a big man, physically, intellectually, and in every sense. This makes it a very effective accusation. Coogan has painted a portrait of devastating neglect, abuse, and mismanagement that certainly fits the genocide concept.

I mean, if we go back to that time Ireland was the equivalent of Puerto Rico or Samoa, massive dependencies on the United States today.

If there were a massive food shortage in either of those two countries, we know the US would step up to the plate, literally.

Back in Famine time, the same potato crop disease occurred most heavily in Scotland, outside Ireland, yet there were relatively few casualties as the landowners and government ensured, for their own sakes as much as anything, that there was no mass death.

That was not the case in Ireland, where a very different mentality prevailed. The damned Irish were going to get what they deserved because of their attachment to Catholicism and Irish ways when they were refusing to toe the British line.

As Coogan painstakingly recounts, every possible effort by local organizations to feed the starving were thwarted and frustrated by a British government intent on teaching the Irish a lesson and forcing market forces on them.

Charles Trevelyan, the key figure in the British government, had foreshadowed the deadly policy in a letter to the “Morning Post”, after a trip to Ireland, where he heartily agreed with the sentiment that there were at least a million or two people too many in the benighted land and that the eight million could not possibly survive there.

“Protestant and Catholic will freely fall and the land will be for the survivors.”

Shortly after, he was in charge of a policy that brought that situation about.

One Trevelyan story and one quote suffice.

“British Coastguard Inspector-General, Sir James Dombrain, when he saw starving paupers, ordered his subordinates to give free food handouts. For his attempts to feed the starving, Dombrain was publicly rebuked by Trevelyan…”

The Trevelyan quote is “The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”

Tim Pat Coogan has done an enormous service with this book.
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Unhappy Queen Victoria and The Terrible Irish Famine That Starved Many to Death

An Inconvenient Truth: Queen Victoria was Welcomed by the Irish During The Terrible Famine That Starved Many to Death

Irish Central, 15 Oct 2017.





Queen Victoria, the Irish famine queen, by Alexander Melville, 1845.Public Domain/WikiCommons



In 1849, during the Great Famine, Queen Victoria travelled to Ireland for an 11-day visit to Cork, Dublin, and Belfast and unbelievably received a warm welcome by the Irish people.


Although an estimated one million people died from disease and starvation during this period, and more than a million had fled to America on coffin ships, Victoria was met with enthusiasm and cheering when she visited Ireland.



In her diary, the young queen wrote of her travels. The citizens of Cork and Cobh (which she renamed “Queenstown” during her visit) “gave the royal party a rapturous welcome,” Lynch reports.

Queen Victoria wrote:

“We drove through the principal streets; twice through some of them; that they were densely crowded, decorated… with flowers and triumphal arches…. that our reception was most enthusiastic and that everything went off to perfection, and was very well arranged.”




Illustration of an Irish family struggling during the Great Hunger.



“Cork is not all like an English town… the crowd is a noisy, excitable but a very good-natured one, running and pushing about, and laughing, talking and shrieking. The beauty of the women is very remarkable… such beautiful dark eyes and hair, and such fine teeth…”


In Dublin,

“An immense multitude had assembled, who cheered most enthusiastically, the ships saluting and the bands playing and it was really very striking. It was a wonderful and striking scene, such masses of human beings, so enthusiastic, so excited, yet such perfect order maintained…. a never-to-be-forgotten scene; when one reflected how lately the country had been in open revolt and under martial law.”


The queen wrote:

“The Mayor presented me with the keys with some appropriate words. At the last triumphal arch, a poor little dove was let down into my lap, with an olive branch round its neck, alive and very tame.”


The Freeman’s Journal referred to Dublin during the visit as “like a city rose from the dead.”





Cover of the novel 'Grace,' by Paul Lynch.


Lynch, who is the author of the novel Grace, about a 14-year-old girl growing up during the Famine, asks, why were the victims of the Famine silent about their suffering?

He writes: “The voices of the ordinary people who experienced those traumatic years went unheard. Those who survived did not speak of it. There is a rich folklore record of hand-me-down story that reveals broad truths. But there is little in the way of first-hand testimony from the ordinary man or woman. Why were they silent?”

“To answer that question, we have to ask, what did it mean to survive?”

He adds: “The truth is that to survive an event of this magnitude, you might have had to connive, to lie and to steal. You might have had to turn a blind eye to your neighbour. You might have taken food from your children. You might have had to kill. Cannibalism – documented in every famine on human record – is something the Irish still do not want to address. Primo Levi in his memoir of Auschwitz said that ‘survivors are rarely heroes – in a world dominated by the law of survival, morality changes.’”

“To seek to understand the silence in the aftermath of the Famine is to enter a deep level of trauma. It is a place where the history books struggle to enter. Such is a place where the novelist steps in,” he concludes.
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Movies Famine,Great Hunger or Genocide? >NEW 'Black 47' MOVIE >Release Date>21FEB

Famine, Great Hunger or Genocide: Which Words Best Describes Black ‘47 and Beyond?

Irish Central, 21 Feb 2018.




Some say the Irish famine was not a genocide but a natural disaster, other heavily criticize the British response. We look at the facts of the famine in Ireland and on the different terms used to describe 1845 and beyond.


Why, until now, has there been so little evidence of the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1849 on the streets, parks, and monuments of Ireland?


A former Hollywood scriptwriter, the people of a Cork village, and a Dublin taxi-driver were not the only ones to be struck by it.
But they decided to do something about it in recent years.

Sometimes you need to go away or talk to strangers to see your home place with clearer eyes or question why some things are somehow best forgotten or ignored.


After many years spent in Britain and the United States, it shocked Mark Kennedy upon his return to his native Galway that there was no public memorial to the greatest disaster in Irish history.


There was no place or statue in his city to commemorate the catastrophe that stole a million lives and forced up to two million to seek out new lives in North America. And Mark wanted to know why.

There was nothing to show friends from the U.S. when they visited the West of Ireland to explore their roots and understand why their ancestors took such arduous journeys.

Mark became a thorn in the side of the establishment in his city and he faced many barriers, even much opposition, before opening the Celia Griffin Park near the old fishing village of the Claddagh in 2012.

Many business people didn’t want to know. He was opening up painful wounds from a time when a hundred ‘coffin ships’ set sail from Galway to the east coast of America, between 1847 and 1850.


The Great Hunger or Famine in Ireland was Brushed Under the Carpet and Not Commemorated by the Public Until Recently




The Irish famine memorial in Dublin. Image: RollingNews.ie.


Many of the passengers, fleeing starvation and deprivation, never made it to the other side. Those who did, faced discrimination, hostility, and even deportation back to Europe after they arrived into the ports of Massachusetts and New York.

There was strong antagonism towards the desperately poor immigrants from Ireland – no doubt considered an “s—thole” by the nativists of New York at the time.

Mark, who passed away in October 2016, decided to name the park in memory of a little six-year-old Galway girl who has now become a symbol for the most terrible time in the history of the West of Ireland.

In Cork, the people of Midleton took it upon themselves to remember the same catastrophe. They commissioned a sculptor, Alex Pentek, to commission a beautiful sculpture of nine eagle feathers in a park in the town.


The Choctaw Indians Helped the Irish During the Famine. Was it Better Than the British Response?




Choctaw Native Americans Gary and Dr. Janie Whitedeer visited Ireland to discuss their history and the Choctaw link with Ireland when their generosity in provided humanitarian relief during the Irish Potato Famine. Image: RollingNews.ie


Despite the oppression they faced themselves, the Choctaw Indians raised money to send to the starving Irish at the height of their suffering in Black 1847. It was the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars today but was only marked publicly by the Irish in October 2015.

In Dublin, veteran taxi-driver Michael Blanch also noticed it. This terrible catastrophe seemed to have been erased from the Irish psyche.
Every now and then, a foreign tourist would sit in his cab and ask him if there was any memorial to the Great Famine in Dublin.

In the 1980s – long before poignant statues of gaunt, starving people were put in place by the banks of the River Liffey – Michael was struck by how there was no public acknowledgment at all of this terrible tragedy on the streets or in the parks of the Irish capital.

Blanch began a 15-year campaign to ensure that the people who died, survived, or emigrated would be remembered through a National Famine Commemoration Day.

Thanks to his efforts, legislation is set to pass through the Dáil (the Irish parliament) in the next few weeks to ensure that the terrible tragedy is remembered on the second Sunday in May each year.


An Annual Date Has Now Been Announced in Ireland When The Famine Will be Remembered




A commemorative work in Dublin dedicated to those Irish people forced to emigrate during the 19th century Irish Famine. Image: RollingNews.ie



Deputy Colm Brophy of Fine Gael, who brought the legislation before the parliament, said it was important that every school child in Ireland learns about the horror of the failure of the potato crop, which affected every town and village in Ireland.

Yet news that Ireland is to get a Famine Commemoration Day has been greeted with a huge online debate over whether or not Ireland really experienced a “Famine” in the 1840s.

The Irish term for the worst time in Irish history, An Gorta Mór, actually means The Great Hunger. More and more people are now of the opinion that there never was a famine, but that the five years of starvation were the result of a deliberate policy of genocide by the British authorities who ruled Ireland at the time.

Historian Christine Kinealy, in a book called “A Death-Dealing Famine,” acknowledges that there has long been an argument that the deaths of a million Irish people were a triumph of doctrine over humanitarian considerations.


What is beyond doubt is that food was exported from Ireland to Britain during the worst years of the catastrophe.


Kinealy points out that official export figures are unreliable because Ireland was considered part of the British Empire in the 1840s, it was part of a “free-trade” zone and there was little need to keep official data of food imports from one island to the other.

But, considering that a million died, shipping reports from the main British ports at the time are startling.


Food Did Leave Ireland for the "Mainland" During the Famine




Memorial to the victims of the Irish Potato Famine "The Great Famine" in the grounds of St Lukes Church, Liverpool, England. Image: WikiCommons.



In 1847, the worst year of the Famine, almost 4,000 ships carried food from Ireland to the major ports of Liverpool, London, Bristol and Glasgow. Over half of them went to Liverpool, where many Irish people also ran out of money as they strove to make their way across the Atlantic.

Records show that ports in some of the worst-affected parts of Ireland, including Ballina, Bantry, Ballyshannon, Kilrush, Sligo, Limerick, and Westport on the Atlantic seaboard, where thousands upon thousands were dying of starvation, were also sending food to the so-called mainland.

Oats, corn, and potatoes left Ireland for the “mainland” while there was an ongoing debate over whether or not the ports should be closed raging in British politics.

Merchants had pressed the British Government to keep the ports open and allow free trade to continue without intervention, even though the city councils in Belfast, Cork, Derry, Dublin and Limerick pressed for the ports to be closed so that food could be kept on the island of Ireland.

Mindful of the death and despair all around them, the cries from the Irish cities were ignored.

Under Sir Robert Peel, Indian corn was imported to Ireland following the first appearance of the potato blight in 1845. The main purpose of importing £100,000 worth of corn from America was to stabilize food prices, rather than to feed the destitute Irish.


Changing Governments Altered the British Response to the Irish Famine





Sir Robert Peel. Image: WikiCommons.


Peel’s Government fell in 1846 with the Whigs, under Lord John Russell, coming to power in London.

This new Government decided to discontinue the policy of corn importation from America, leaving food importation to “market forces” even though there was far less food than in the previous year.

Merchants and grain producers, a powerful interest group at the time, campaigned to make sure that only a limited number of food depots would open in the West of Ireland, even as thousands were dying.

The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, John William Ponsonby, criticised the merchants for striving to keep prices up even in the midst of an appalling catastrophe.

“It is difficult to persuade a starving population that one class should be permitted to make 50 percent profit by the sale of provisions whilst they are dying in want of these,” he reflected at the beginning of 1847.

Soup kitchens eventually replaced the public works programme which was introduced by the Whig Government, and grain imports to Ireland rose, but by then it was too late for the hundreds of thousands who died.

Historians now agree that British Government policies deliberately led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Irish people, leading many people to proclaim that there never was a Great Famine.

It could be argued that it was a deliberate act of neglect or even genocide.
During the tense Brexit border negotiations before Christmas, many Irish people were shocked by how little ordinary British people knew about their own country’s history in Ireland. They don’t teach much, or anything, about the Great Hunger in British schools.

Now, thanks to a Dublin taxi-driver, Irish children will remember the one million who died and almost two million who emigrated on a designated day in May of each year.


Whether we call it a ‘famine’ or ‘genocide’ at this stage is perhaps not as important as the fact that the people of the island are finally going to have a special day to honor and remember those who died.
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Movies Irish Famine Revenge Film "Black 47" Release Date

New Irish Famine Revenge Film Black 47 Trailer Lands Ahead of UK Release
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Already a critically-acclaimed movie, a new trailer for the Great Hunger action thriller movie “Black 47” has been released, by Warner Bros, ahead of the drama’s official Irish and United Kingdom theater release


IrishCentral Staff @IrishCentral, 30 July, 2018







Feeney, the Ranger, played by James Frecheville, in "Black 47".



Already a critically-acclaimed movie, a new trailer for the Great Hunger action thriller movie “Black 47” has been released, by Warner Bros, ahead of the drama’s official Irish and United Kingdom theater release dates.

The movie, “Black 47”, follows the story of an Irish Ranger, during the worst of the Irish Famine in 1847. The Irish young soldier had been fighting for the British Army abroad but abandons his post to reunite with his family. Despite been hardened by his time on the battlefield he is shocked by the horror he discovers in his ravaged homeland.

Feeney, the Ranger, played by James Frecheville, finds his mother starved to death and his brother hanged by the brutal hand of the English. With little else to live for he sets a destructive path to avenge his family.

“Black 47” was written by Lance Daly and P.J. Dillon and also directed by Daly. Starring Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Jim Broadbent, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, and Freddie Fox, to name but a few, “Black 47” was released at the Berlin Festival in February 2018 to rave reviews. It was then aired in Ireland at the Dublin International Film Festival. It will now be released in Irish theaters on September 7 and in the United Kingdom on 28 September.

What will be interesting is seeing how the movie depicting the desperation and destruction of the Irish Famine is received by the public. Despite critical-acclaim and the fact that the movie is set for general release it currently only has a rating of 50% on RottenTomatoes and 6.4 on IMDB.


In October 2017 the British public were “horrified” by a “ITV drama's brutal Irish Famine episode”. The TV drama “Victoria”, starring Jenna Coleman, which had Sunday night viewer figures of 4.8 million, aired a realistic presentation of Great Hunger.


The show trended on Twitter for a day with the public left reeling by the realities of the Irish Famine.

Come 28 September we may very well see the same reactions as the action revenge thriller “Black 47” hits the big screens in the United Kingdom.






Here are some highlights from the Berlin Film Festival press conference for "Black 47":




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Movies Sultan’s Help During Irish Famine to Become a Movie

Tale of Turkish Sultan’s Help During Irish Famine to Become a Movie

IrishCentral Staff, 14 September, 2018





Given the success of “Black 47” it seems the movie “Famine”, the tale of Sultan Khaleefah Abdul-Majid who sent relief to Ireland and shamed Queen Victoria, could be on its way to Hollywood.



Another major Irish Famine movie is on the way, “Famine” after the success of “Black 47,” which opens in 100 American screens on 28 September, 2018.

Suddenly the topic of the Irish Famine has become a popular one for movie makers after it was ignored since the birth of film.


Turkish film director Omer Sarikaya, who has had a major hit with “Silent Angel” and has an upcoming film called “‘Islamophobia”, says his next movie “Famine” will feature the amazing story of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who sent famine relief to Ireland and shamed Queen Victoria into doing the same. Sultan Khaleefah Abdul-Majid also reportedly sent four ships laden with food.

At a time when Ireland was enduring the terrible loss of a million dead and the mass exodus of a million more during the Great Hunger, the story goes that the Ottoman Sultan, Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I, declared his intention to send £10,000 to aid Ireland's farmers. However, Queen Victoria intervened and requested that the Sultan send only £1,000 because she had sent only £2,000 herself.


So the Sultan sent only the £1,000, but he also secretly sent five ships full of food. The English courts attempted to block the ships, but the food arrived in Drogheda harbor and was left there by Ottoman sailors. That £10,000 that the Sultan pledged to the to the Irish would be worth approximately £800,000 ($1.7m) today.






Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Khaleefah Abdul-Majid, who sent aid to Ireland during the Great Hunger.


The summary of the plot reads:
“Ottoman, a Muslim country, lends a charitable hand to Ireland during their hour of need.
In 1847 the Ottoman empire sent aid to Ireland during their hour of need, the great famine, the most devastating and traumatic period in Ireland's history.
This charitable act from a Muslim country to a Christian nation, separated by 4,000 miles, was an unlikely outcome. The Ottoman Empire was experiencing enormous internal difficulty but the Sultan Abdulmecid was determined to help the starving men and women of Ireland. A friendship between two different cultures was formed."
Sarikaya has said he has spent years researching the topic and now has backers for the film. The project has been in the pipeline since 2015 but in the new atmosphere and given the success of “Black 47” an action thriller set during the Irish Famine, Sarikaya’s move now stands a much better chance than before.




The full poster for the movie "Famine".



Sarikaya fell in love with this story, which was mentioned by Joyce in "Ulysses" :
"Even the Grand Turk sent us his piastres. But the Sassenach tried to starve the nation at home while the land was full of crops that the British hyenas bought and sold in Rio de Janeiro."

Sarikaya spent two years researching the story and was determined to bring it to the big screen. It was a true passion project for Sarikaya

The writer and director of “Famine” stated he discussed the film with Mel Gibson who has Irish roots, but Gibson’s agent denies anything has been signed.

Sarikaya has uploaded pictures of him posing with Gibson, claiming they spoke about the project when they met at the 2016 Venice Film Festival.

In an interview with the Irish Sun, he said: “Mel thinks the topic of the story is amazing.

"He loves Irish people and the country and he’s half Irish.”

Sarikaya added that "next year we are shooting this movie in Ireland and Turkey. We already have big investors and sponsors.”
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Horror as Irish Famine Memorial Desecrated in Providence, R.I.

IrishCentral Staff 15 September, 2018




The Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial.Providence Police Department



An Irish famine memorial in Providence, R.I., has suffered major damage after vandals stole two bronze plaques from the site.


According to police, the plaques, which tell the story of the Irish famine, were stolen in August.

"My great-grandparents on both sides of my family were famine survivors," said Donald Deignan, historian and president of the Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial Committee.




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"What we believe happened was that these plates were stolen for the scrap metal value they might yield on the black market," Deignan said. "But the paradox is that the monetary value of these plates on the black market would be very small."

The committee has since removed all plaques to prevent further theft from the $1 million memorial,

The Rhode Island Irish Famine Memorial was erected on 100 Eddy St in Providence in 2007 and is dedicated to the victims and survivors of the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1851.

"They are despicable," said Deignan. "They have no sense of history, they have no sense of propriety and no sense of decency."

The memorial committee is seeking donations to help restore the plaques.
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Canada Flag Funeral For 21 Irish Famine Victims in Canada

Human Remains on Canadian Beach are Irish Famine Victims say Scientists

Irish Central, 7 JUNE 2019.



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Canadian scientists have confirmed that the bones found washed up on a beach at Forillon National Park in Quebec in 2011 and 2016 are Irish Famine victims from the 1847 Carricks shipwreck.


Three of the bodies washed up in 2011 and have been identified as two seven year old boys and an eleven year old boy. Their bones indicated severe malnutrition scientists said.

The ship carrying 180 passengers had departed from Sligo, Ireland in March 1847, under the command of Captain R.Thompson, loaded with emigrants ejected from the Irish estates of Lord Palmerston whose agents had chartered the ill-equipped boat to get rid of them.

On the 28th of April 1847 the ship ran into a severe storm in the Gulf of St Lawrence and was wrecked about 4 miles east of Cape Rosier when the crew were unable to shorten the sails. It was headed to the quarantine station at Grosse Isle and then the Port of Quebec when it sank.


The bodies found are definitely from the shipwreck the bioarchaeology laboratory at the Université de Montréal has confirmed.

The bones of the three young boys washed up on the beach at Cap-des-Rosiers in 2011 following a violent storm that damaged the shoreline. According to historical accounts, the bodies of the shipwrecked were buried on the beach.

In 2016, Parks Canada carried out an archeological dig in the area. During these digs, the remains of a further 18 individuals were discovered, bringing the total number up to 21. Most were the remains of women and children.

The bones of the Famine emigrants revealed severe malnutrition and associated diseases caused by the Famine which was then raging.at its height in Black 47 and conditions aboard ship.

It is estimated that 100,000 fleeing famine victims set out for Canada in 1847 alone and that 20,000 died on the voyage or at the quarantine station at Grosse Isle.

According to historical sources, it is estimated that between 120 and 150 people died when the Carricks sank. Of these, 87 bodies were found and only 48 people survived this tragic event.Local fisherman showing great bravery saved who they could.





Irish Memorial monument on Cap-des-Rosiers Beach.



Canadian park services officials after consulting with the citizens of Cap-des-Rosiers and members of the Irish community, decided that the human remains will be buried near the Irish Memorial monument on Cap-des-Rosiers Beach at a ceremony to be held in the summer of 2019.

That monument was erected in 1900 by St. Patrick’s Parish in Montreal in memory of the Famine victims. The ship’s bell-which was found on September 24, 1968, on the beach at Blanc-Sablon on Quebec’s North Shore-is located next to the monument.

From 1832 to 1937, all ships had to make a mandatory stop at Grosse Île, which was then used as a quarantine station for the Port of Quebec. Without this catastrophic accident, the Carricks would also have followed this route.

“During the Great Famine of Ireland in 1847, Canada became the home of many Irish immigrants. The tragic events of the Carricks shipwreck are a startling reminder of just how difficult the journey was for the travellers and that not everybody was lucky enough to reach their new home.

"Today’s announcement is very significant for Irish families whose ancestors were Carricks passengers. This shipwreck reflects an important part of Canadian history.” said Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of National Revenue and Member of Parliament for Gaspésie - Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine
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Funeral Lays 21 Irish Famine Victims to Rest in Canada

Irish Central, 6 JULY 2019.



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172 years after the Carrick coffin ship from Sligo sank off Cap-des-Rosiers, in Quebec the remains of 21 Irish victims of the Great Hunger, mainly women, and children, were laid to rest


The remains of 21 Irish coffin ship victims of Great Hunger have been laid to rest near the beach where they were discovered in Quebec, Canada.

It was confirmed earlier this year that human bones discovered on a beach at Cap-des-Rosiers, Quebec, between 2011 and 2016 were those of 21 souls lost when a the Carricks ship sank in 1847. The Carricks had been transporting 180 people from Sligo, at the height of Ireland’s Great Hunger, when it sank just off the coast of Canada. Only 48 passengers survived, 87 others were buried in a mass grave.





Inside a coffin ship during the Great Hunger.


Early in 2019, a bioarchaeology laboratory at the University of Montreal identified the remains of three children, aged between seven and 12 years old.

In 2016, the remains of a further 18 people were discovered, mostly women and children. Scientists revealed that the victims were malnourished and had eaten a diet mainly consisting of potato.

The funeral ceremony, held at Forillon National Park was attended by around 150 people, including descendants of some of the survivors of the shipwreck.

Pat Ward (63), from Keash, Co Sligo, told the BBC he believes that some of his ancestors were among those who died in the shipwreck. He said it was “very emotional” to think that his ancestors remains had been recovered and said the ceremony would “bring closure”.

George Kavanagh (79), from Quebec, also had ancestors on the doomed Carrick ship. In advance of the poignant ceremony, he told the Globe and Mail “This is part of my history. I want to bid them a final adieu.”




An illustration of departure and loss during Ireland's Great Hunger.


Marie-Eve Murray, of Forillon National Park, told the Press Association “A ceremony intended to pay homage to the victims of the Carricks shipwreck took place on Thursday, July 4th at 10.30am at the site of the Irish Memorial, located on Du Banc trail, North Area of the Forillon National Park.

“This ceremony, organized by the St-Alban Parish Council in Cap-des-Rosiers in collaboration with Parks Canada, was attended by around 150 people: the descendants of the survivors, dignitaries and the local population.”

Ireland’s Great Hunger, also known as the Irish Famine, killed a million people between 1845 and 1849. Up to two million others emigrated in search of a better life, decimating Ireland’s population.

Jason King, the Academic Coordinator at the Irish Heritage Trust and National Famine Museum in Ireland told the Globe and Mail “The discovery of the famine remains is a subject close to the hearts of Irish Canadians.

“For many, the famine emigration of 1847 really symbolizes their own ancestry, their own heritage, their own roots. Because of the hardship that was experienced, the suffering, many Irish Canadians regard it as part of their story and their legacy in Canada, even though they are not descendants of the famine immigrants themselves.”

King said the Forillon National Park ceremony was a fitting tribute to the Irish victims.

“This is a gesture of respect for migrants who’ve passed away in a moment of extreme danger and peril. It invites us to reflect on people’s experiences today when they embark on similar types of journeys.”


Read more: Ireland's Great Hunger - what really happened to the food in Ireland

Read more:Was it genocide? What the British ruling class really said about the Irish Famine
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Irish Canadians React to Discovery of Famine-Era Bone Fragments in Montreal Canada

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Hundreds of Famine-era Irish immigrants are believed to be buried in Montreal and now Irish Canadians are hoping to respectfully re-inter them nearby

IrishCentral / Montreal Gazette, 13 Dec, 2019





Beyond Black Rock: Plans for a memorial park to honour as many as 6,000 typhus victims from the Summer of Sorrow appear to be in jeopardy.


Irish Canadians in Montreal are pleased with the progress and handling of the excavation of Famine-era bone fragments that were recently discovered in an approximately 200-year-old grave plot where construction for a new light-rail system is underway.

CTV News reports that last month, bone fragments were discovered as construction commenced for the REM, 'Réseau express métropolitain,’ the rapid-transit system being rolled out in Montreal. Bone samples from more than a dozen people were discovered in a 2.3 meter-diameter spot that will eventually hold on the light-rail system’s pillars.

Irish Canadians were already tuned into the construction at the site as they are aiming for the new light-rail system’s stop in the area to pay homage to the district’s strong Irish legacy. Nearby, the Black Rock memorial honors the thousands of Irish migrants who, in fleeing the Famine, died soon after arriving in Canada amid a typhus outbreak.

CBC reported earlier this year that historians believe Black Rock is “the first-ever memorial to those affected by the potato famine and the biggest Irish gravesite outside Ireland.”

Victor Boyle, director of the Montreal Irish Monument Park, paid a visit to the excavation site this week with other representatives of the Montreal Irish community where they were able to view a skull and femur bone of an adult that was discovered.

Boyle said: "It's one thing to say, over and over – which we have for generations – that this is an Irish cemetery, there are 6,000 bodies buried here. That part of the history is well known.

“But to see these remains with my own eyes, to touch a coffin with my own hands? It's something that just goes beyond description.”

Victor Keyes, who also visited the site, said in a Facebook post: "We had a great chance to speak with the archeologists on site. They now believe that they had recovered about 14 remains – some are adults, some are adolescents, and some are children. As mentioned in the past, more details about each of these individuals will be possible after the laboratory tests are completed – which might be many months away.

"However, we were told that the remains were in very good condition, likely based on the fact that they were in a clay type soil - and therefore it is very, very likely that DNA can be extracted from these remains."

Boyle says that the REM have “gone way beyond any of our expectations when it comes to the respect and care and handling of the dig and this site. It’s almost as though they’re digging in the cemetery of their own relatives.”

“It’s more than just a science, it’s a labor of love,” Boyle added.

Boyle said he and his group are hoping to re-inter the remains as close as they can to the original site.

“Imagine - these people have been buried beside each other for over 200 years. To just start separating them would just be unconscionable.”

What if some of the city’s best doctors, nurses, members of the clergy and the mayor were caring for the sick newcomers at the risk of their own lives?

What if the dead were being buried in hastily dug trenches next to the makeshift hospital, piled three coffins deep?

What if the death toll rose to the equivalent of 12 per cent of the city’s population?

You’d think a city couldn’t forget a thing like that.

The events of Black 47 are very real to Montreal-born, Dublin-based historian Jason King. On visits to his hometown, King, academic coordinator for the Irish Heritage Trust, which operates the Irish National Famine Museum, always makes a point of visiting the site in Pointe-St-Charles where as many as 6,000 people died of typhus in 1847.
You pass under a railway bridge, past a Costco store, derelict warehouses and empty parking lots bordered by concrete blocks. It’s easy to miss the monument to the typhus victims — a rough boulder in the median between traffic lanes on Bridge St., near the Victoria Bridge. On it are inscribed the words:

“To Preserve from Desecration the Remains of 6000 Immigrants Who died of Ship Fever A.D. 1847-48

This Stone is erected by the Workmen of Messrs. Peto, Brassey and Betts Employed in the Construction of the Victoria Bridge A.D. 1859.”

King contemplates the stone in silence, broken only by passing vehicles, the sighing wind and screeching of seagulls.

“You do feel a real sense of connectedness when you come to the actual place,” he says.

“Usually, when I come I’m by myself. There’s really nobody here. There’s passing traffic, but that kind of becomes white noise after a minute or two. The rock and the strange, empty parking lot. It’s a very moving site, a very strange site,” King says.

Dozens of cities, including Toronto, New York, Boston and Philadelphia, have sites commemorating the one million Irish who fled their homeland during the Great Famine of 1846-51 — of whom an estimated one in five died en route of disease and starvation.

Each year, some 20,000 tourists journey to Grosse-Île, the former quarantine station near Quebec City where more than 5,000 famine migrants died in 1847.
But Montreal, whose Black Rock is the world’s oldest famine memorial, has no appropriate place of remembrance — just this dangerous spot in the middle of a busy commuter route.

Yet it was in Montreal that the tragedy struck hardest, and that the community most heroically rose to the challenge of helping the sick and dying, King says.
“Montreal was in a sense the epicentre of the 1847 famine migration,” he says.

“It was the largest city in British North America. It was the only major city to have famine refugees in massive numbers come into the city itself.”

For the past five years, members of the local Irish community have been working to create a memorial park honouring those who fled the famine, only to die on Montreal’s waterfront.

Their plan calls for moving the Black Rock to the future park on the east side of Bridge St. at rue des Irlandais, an area now occupied by a parking lot and Lafarge cement site.

But in May, organizers of the Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation learned the land earmarked for the park had been sold to Hydro-Québec, to build an electrical substation to supply the future Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM) train. Mayor Denis Coderre, who had initially pledged support for the park, now insists the substation must go ahead but has promised to find a compromise.
Coderre and other city officials refused to be interviewed for this article.




The Black Rock memorial marking the graves of typhus victims is lowered into place in 1859. Credit: William Notman / McCord Museum



The city is also keeping mum on its plans for the rest of the area between Bridge St., the Bonaventure Expressway and Mill St. — formerly the working-class neighbourhood of Goose Village, which the city demolished in 1964. The Coderre administration is reportedly eyeing the site for a future baseball stadium, to bring back Major League Baseball to Montreal.

“The Goose Village sector is targeted in the Stratégie Centre-Ville (a downtown development plan) which will be unveiled in the near future,” is all city spokesperson Jules Chamberland would say in an email exchange.

The REM project calls for a light-rail station underneath the Lachine Canal’s Peel Basin, with a north entrance in Griffintown and a south entrance about a 10-minute walk from the Goose Village site.

But to King, any project that brushes aside the site’s tragic history would be a violation of the last resting place of the thousands who died.

“You can’t imagine this happening anywhere else, that you’d have a mass grave in complete abandonment,” he says.

Sylvain Gaudet, a researcher with the Société d’histoire de Pointe-Saint-Charles, has pored over newspapers, maps and property records to document the burial grounds where the typhus victims were laid to rest. Initially, the sick were housed in sheds near the Peel Basin; later, sheds were built for them on the Goose Village site. Archaeological research is needed to determine what traces remain of the thousands buried at the two sites, Gaudet said.




Historian Jason King at the Irish Commemorative Stone, the Black Rock, situated in the median between traffic lanes on Bridge St. Proponents want a memorial park to be built on an adjacent site, and the rock moved there. Credit: Peter McCabe / Montreal Gazette


Anne-Marie Balac, an archaeologist who worked for Quebec’s Ministry of Culture for 27 years and is now a consultant, said “it’s unthinkable” to allow any project to be built without a thorough investigation of what lies under the ground.

“We know it has a very high archaeological potential because it’s a cemetery,” she said.

Several bodies have been unearthed over the years, including during roadwork and building of the Costco, leaving no doubt that the site is a former cemetery, Balac said.

In 1942, excavations near the entrance to the Victoria Bridge turned up the coffins of 12 typhus victims in a trench-like grave. They were reinterred near the Black Rock.

“It’s urgent to act before going too far,” Balac said.
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In the spring of 1847, Montrealers braced for an influx from famine-stricken Ireland, where the potato crop had failed in both of the previous two years.

“We learn from British papers and private letters published in those of the United States, that the preparations for emigration from Britain, and especially from Ireland, are unprecedentedly great,” the Montreal Witness newspaper reported on March 8.




Fever sheds along the near shore, to the right, are seen from Mount Royal in 1852 in this lithograph by Endicott & Co. Credit: McGill University Rare Books and Special Collections


Fearing a deluge of undesirables, the United States tightened regulations for passenger ships, pushing up travel costs.

This meant the poorest immigrants would be forced to travel via Quebec City and Montreal, the Witness correctly predicted.

Soon “our shores are likely to be thronged with emigrants, chiefly of a class who will have little or nothing left when they arrive,” the paper warned, urging that “no time ought to be lost” in making preparations.

But nothing could have prepared Montrealers for what they saw when sick and starving immigrants began stepping off steamboats from Quebec City.

“Good God! What a spectacle. Hundreds of people, most of them lying naked on planks haphazardly, men, women and children, sick, moribund and cadavers; all of this confusion hit the eyes at once,” the Annals of the Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns) reported on June 7.

The overcrowded “coffin ships” that brought the migrants to the New World — often Canadian timber vessels making the return trip with a human cargo — were the perfect breeding ground for typhus, spread by body lice infected with the Rickettsia prowazekii bacterium. (The cause would not be discovered until 1916.)



Theophile Hamel’s painting, Le Typhus, on the ceiling inside the entrance to Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel in Old Montreal. Nuns, priests, Protestant clergy and others disregarded their own safety to care for the newcomers. Credit: Peter McCabe


“Hundreds of poor people, men, women, and children of all ages, from the drivelling idiot of ninety to the babe just born, huddled together without light, without air, wallowing in filth, and breathing a fetid atmosphere…” Irish landowner and social reformer StephenDe Verewrote of a crossing to Quebec in 1847.

A foul odour wafted from the immigrant ships, like the stink of a dunghill on a foggy day, observed Grosse-Île’s medical superintendent, Dr. George Douglas.

“I never saw people so indifferent to life – they would continue in the same berth with a dead person until the seamen or captain dragged out the corpse with boat hooks,” Douglas wrote in a letter to the chief immigration agent in Quebec City.
Of the 100,000 who sailed for British North America in 1847, an estimated 70,000 arrived in Montreal, then a town of 50,000.

At first, the sick were housed in existing sheds on the south bank of the Peel Basin of the Lachine Canal. As the epidemic spread, prominent citizens demanded that a quarantine station be set up on the Boucherville Islands. But authorities rejected that idea as impractical and decided to build new sheds on the shore of the St. Lawrence, approximately where the Black Rock stands today. At the time, the site was on the waterfront but today the river is farther away because landfill has altered the shoreline.

By Aug. 1, patients were being cared for in 21 new, well-ventilated sheds, with a total capacity of 1,800. (Good ventilation was considered essential for healing because people then believed disease was spread by miasmas, or bad air.)

Those who died were buried next to the sheds, in long trenches where the coffins were piled three deep.

“The sheds were more or less here, on the waterfront,” King says.

“On the one hand, it’s a scene of utter desolation and desperation, with hundreds of people dying in abject misery, but also there’s a lot of compassion and there’s a lot of caring towards them,” he says.


While the tragedy was the city’s darkest moment, it was also in some ways its finest hour, he says.

“For all of the deaths, all of the anxiety and the fear, it’s in many ways a positive story. It’s a story of self-sacrifice, a story of people rising to the occasion,” he adds.

Nuns, priests, Protestant clergy and others disregarded their own safety to care for the newcomers. The Mohawks of Kahnawake brought food for the starving strangers.

“These are much, much bigger challenges than we can possibly imagine. When there were real risks, we accepted them all, with a generosity of spirit I think we rarely see today anywhere,” King says.


Estimates of the death toll in Montreal in 1847 vary from 3,579 by Nov. 1 — the number reported by Canada’s chief immigration agent in Quebec City — to the 6,000 recorded on the Black Rock, which includes deaths in 1848. In its report for 1847, the city’s emigration committee stated 3,862 died of typhus in Montreal that year.

Quebec families adopted hundreds of Irish orphans at the urging of Catholic bishop Ignace Bourget. Their descendants are among the 40 per cent of Quebecers who claim some Irish ancestry.

“When the Irish settled in urban areas, they became English. When they settled in rural areas, they became French-Canadian, retaining their Irish surnames but otherwise indistinguishable from everyone else,” King notes.

Today, as Haitian asylum-seekers are sheltered in the Olympic Stadium and Syrian refugees adjust to life in Canada, the city’s response to the famine migrants of 1847 sends a powerful message, King says.

“After that initial moment of panic, it’s a story of people becoming accepted into their new communities, people becoming new French-Canadians or Irish-Canadians,” King says.

“In a nutshell, it’s a story of integration.”




Lithograph shows, in the background, fever sheds for the typhus victims of 1847 during the 1850s, when they were used to house the workers who built the Victoria Bridge from 1854-1859. Credit: McCord Museum




Wood engraving by John Henry Walker, between 1859 and 1885, shows the Black Rock on the waterfront. Today, landfill has greatly altered the shoreline. Credit: McCord Museum








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"Voyage of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, the Irish Famine, and the Remarkable Story of America’s First Humanitarian Mission" by Stephen Puleo is out in March.

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New book tells the incredible story of the first American ship to bring Famine relief to Ireland




The USS Jamestown, taken between 1844 and 1913.US Navy / Public Domain





An invaluable new book shines light on the untold story of the first ship that left America and sailed to Ireland laden with food to help the starving Irish during the Famine.



The successful mission of mercy inspired thousands of other Americans to donate and pay for ships to bring food. It was also the first American humanitarian mission sending aid from one country to another.

5,000 ships left Ireland during the Famine. The USS Jamestown captained by Robert Bennet Forbes was the first ship to go the other way.

Forbes, a merchant and man of intense compassion, made it his life mission to help the starving Irish after observing so many desperate Irish arrive in Boston.

The book also portrays the amazing work of a Cork-based Irish priest Father Mathew, famous for his work on stopping alcohol abuse, whose role in ministering to and saving thousands of Irish during the famine has never been properly revealed.

The voyage of the USS Jamestown through storm-tossed seas and gale-force winds which battered the sailing ship in April 1847 is vividly described in the book by Stephen Puleo.

Puleo’s account of the ship almost foundering is gripping based on the accounts of those who sailed on her.

Puleo writes: ”Weak light leaked from deck lanterns, but beyond the ship’s raised prow and forward riggings, the darkness was total — “black as Erebus,” as Forbes described it in the captain’s log, referring to the mythological netherworld that serves as the passageway to Hades."

For six straight days after leaving the Charlestown Navy Yard, the ship and its crew were pounded by miserable weather as they fought their way toward Ireland. Snow, sleet, hail, and cold rendered all ropes “stiff as crowbars . . . and the men also,” Forbes wrote in his captain’s log.

Forbes incredibly had convinced the US government to loan him a warship for his mission of mercy. Puleo writes: “It was the first time the US — or any nation, for that matter — extended its hand to a foreign neighbor in such a broad and all-encompassing way for purely humanitarian reasons.”

Puleo places the voyage of the USS Jamestown in an incredible historical context as the first humanitarian aid mission by one country to another, something that began the era of international humanitarian aid missions.

Meanwhile back in Ireland, Father Theobald Mathew wrote five times to the British government overseer of Ireland, Charles Treveylan, pleading for more food. He described the dreadful scenes in cities, towns, and countryside of thousands dying weekly and the unimaginable pain and suffering.

"This country is in an awful position,” he stressed to Trevelyan, “and no one can tell what the result will be.” But Trevelyan had a heart of stone.




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Father Mathew was also aware of the American ship that was due with desperately needed food. The ship arrived early on the morning of April 13, 1847, having left Boston on March 28th.

Puleo writes: “Thousands of people lined the hillsides and the wharves. Men and children cheered wildly, women 'waved their muslin,' and many people wept openly. An Irish band onshore played 'Yankee Doodle,' while men in small boats waved their hats and shouted their greetings as the ship passed.

"When news reached Cork city that the Jamestown had dropped anchor, bells rang out across the city to welcome it. Forbes and his crew were greeted by a jubilant reception committee 'before the anchor had fairly bitten the soil.'"

When Forbes and Mathew met, they shook hands and embraced outside of the American consul’s office.

Puleo writes: “Both men had achieved nearly saint-like status among the poor Irish: Mathew, tending to his flock, sharing his bread and coin, opening his kitchen and bedrooms, praying over the fever-ravaged, risking his own health — his very life — for families he had long known and loved, a gladiator leading a relentless and courageous fight against famine and fever, from altar and alleyways, from hovels and hospitals; Forbes, the benevolent, mysterious, “illustrious” stranger — the “Merchant Prince,”


One publication called him — a man of accomplishment and high standing in his home country, risking his own life on the high seas for people he did not know. While the rest of the world remained silent or turned its back, while the British government harrumphed and dithered, Mathew and Forbes were doing everything in their power to save Ireland."

Mathew took Forbes through the city and Forbes never forgot the sight. “He had seen poverty and hopelessness in other parts of the world, but nothing like this," Puleo writes, "He had read about the dire situation in Ireland and perhaps imagined the suffering as the Jamestown plowed through the Atlantic waves toward Ireland -- — but there was simply no way to prepare for what he encountered.”

Forbes later wrote: “I saw enough in five minutes to horrify me. Hovels crowded with the sick and dying — some called for water . . . and others for a dying blessing.

“Every street corner is filled with pale, careworn creatures, the weak leading the weaker; women assail you at every turn with famished babies imploring alms.”

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Back home in America, the Jamestown's celebrated mission opened the floodgates. “The plight of a ravaged foreign country and its desperate people pierced America’s hardest hearts and opened its most obdurate minds," says Puleo.

By July 4, 1848, fifteen months after the assistance had begun, Americans had donated more than 9,900 tons of food to sustain Ireland

In 1847, 114 ships from US ports delivered food, clothing, and provisions to starving Ireland. The voyage of the Jamestown, the courage of Forbes and Father Mathew the care and concern for the desperate population will resonate in history and this book has done an incredible job reminding us of a rare bright star that shone in the deep darkness of the time of the Irish famine.

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