Bid to include Irish Famine on US schools’ curriculum

A Co Cork-born man is spearheading a campaign in America’s third largest state to have the Irish Famine put on its schools’ curriculum.

John F O’Riordan of the California Democrat Party, who emigrated from Doneraile in the 1990s, is leading the charge because he says he says millions of Californians can trace their Irish roots to the Famine.

“Consequently, the Famine is central to the history of California and the United States.”