Royal navy Quote by Neil Hegarty

“export of food from Ireland during the famine: 430,000 tons of grain in 1846 and 1847, the two worst years. “The Almighty indeed sent…

— Charles C. Mann

“If the port made New York, the Irish made the port,” writes James T. Fisher in On the Irish Waterfront.15 Many of the dockworkers…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

“Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced—an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6…

— Ryan Hackney

We were more fortunate than most, because [Bernard] Leach had been in America on a lecture tour in 1950, and we made arrangements to…

— Warren MacKenzie

“True the greater part of the Irish people was close to starvation. The numbers of weakened people dying from disease were rising. So few…

— Edward Rutherfurd

The Great Famine is a period of our history that we need to know in great detail in order to understand its continuing impact…

— Mary Robinson

The first thing to recognize is how fortunate Ireland is to be an island off the west coast of Europe, and therefore helped by…

— Mary Robinson

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system…

— Charles Trevelyan

“As late as 1912, Britain carried more than half the goods shipped across the seas of the”

— Thomas Sowell

“Cromwell's punitive expedition marked a watershed in Irish history. An estimated 40 percent of the Irish population died either in the war or in…

— Thomas Sowell

Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

— Jo Bonner

The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had…

— Tom Devine