Great Famine Voices Roadshow: Strokestown Famine Orphans in Quebec and New York

Name: Great Famine Voices Roadshow: Strokestown Famine Orphans in Quebec and New York — New York Irish Center
Start: 2021-05-23T14:00:00-0400
End: 2021-05-23T16:00:00-0400

Sunday, May 23, 2021
2:00 PM 4:00 PM 14:00 16:00

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Strokestown Famine Orphans in Quebec and New York [Ted Jefferies Media]. Hosted by Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, Quinnipiac University, 7 PM GMT, 2 PM EST

Strokestown Famine Orphans in Quebec and New York recalls the harrowing journeys of children from rural Roscommon such as Edward Neary, Patrick and Thomas Quinn, and Daniel and Catherine Tighe who crossed the Atlantic in some of the worst coffin ships in 1847 to start new lives in Canada and the United States. Their sorrowful journeys are recounted by their descendants.