Unpublished Famine archive goes on display

A unique archive on the Great Famine and what happened to coffin ship victims when they got to Canada opened over the weekend at the University of Limerick.

Unpublished   Famine archive goes on display

The archive tells of the heroic work by the French-Canadian Sisters of Charity, or Grey Nuns, who cared for the emigrants in the fever sheds of Montreal during the summer of 1847 and provided homes for Irish widows and orphans.

The annals, translated from French, contain extensive, evocative eyewitness accounts of the suffering of Famine migrants in 1847.

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