OK. Let's do it..by descendants of potato famine.

Songs: Mick's if he will let us
Skibereen -- this one is taken
Praties they grow small
Shane McGowan's dune song if he will let us
Pride of Dunquin..me

Any have any recorded? I do want this to be a tribute to our ancestors so you should have ancestors who were in this.

One reason I will always call it the potato famine and nothing else is because that is what I learned to call it. Also, I don't think we should imply that we were the only ones who ever had a famine..think of Ukraine, and Ethiopia and all sorts of places with horrible famines themselves.

Also, I am reading a book on kindle..don;t have it with me right now..about the legislators of the time...they were not as callous and awful as we might have been led to believe. LThey were slow and inefficient but there did not seem to be an attitude of they are only Irish, let them starve.

And one great tragedy I was not aware of..it lmade no sense to make weakened men go and cut stones when they were farmers..one reason so many died on the works was the bad winter and their lack lof winter clothing..but there was a large amount of money to drain the unused land, or even to drain land of landlords that was not tapped into and could have provided work for people to grow other crops, such as oats, which were in fine shape during the 1847 famine at least. One person really pushed this scheme but it never really took off.   mg