1. The potato famine, so many millions of people were affected by it and all the deaths that have occurred. 2. Their families had come to the United States during the nineteenth-century potato famine. 3. Already there were memorials to fallen police officers and victims of the Holocaust, and a memorial was being built to victims of the Irish potato famine. 4. A six-hour chronicle of Irish immigration to the United States after the potato famine. 5. Campbell, a native of Ireland, likened attitudes about the Mollies to reticence about the potato famine. 6. He barely mentions the potato famine, and dismisses the Easter uprising with two sentences. 7. He fled Ireland during the potato famine and became a railroad laborer. 8. He told one interviewer that six of his great-grandparents emigrated to America from Ireland during the height of the potato famine. 9. His great-grandparents settled in the Irish enclave after fleeing Killarney during the potato famine and living briefly in Chicopee Falls, Mass. 10. In recent years, leaders from around the globe have offered apologies for such things as the Holocaust and the Irish potato famine. |