Cork City memorial to Famine is called for

St Joseph's cemetery, Ballyphehane, Cork, where some 10,000 people who died in the famine were buried.

The Hunger,: The Story of the Irish Famine, recently screened on RTÉ, has been something of an eye-opener for most people, even for those of us who thought that we had a good understanding of Irish history.

One of the points made as part of this excellent two-part broadcast was that, for the most part, the
Irish middle classes, Catholic and Protestant, turned their backs on the starving and diseased masses. The potato blight itself was an act of nature.