“Britain’s genocide by starvation”, “Ireland’s holocaust 1845-1849”, “Over 1,500,000 deaths”. The great hunger is depicted using images from Illustrated London Newses of the time (see the Visual History page on an gorta mór).
The mural was begun in 1995 and was still in development in 1997. Whiterock Road, west Belfast
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Copyright © 1998 Paddy Duffy
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