Turning back to a Great Hunger at Strokestown Park House

At the reopened National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park you see how both sides lived

Famine Museum at Strokestown Park House, Co Roscommon.

Midway through his recent Oireachtas appearances Ryan Tubridy’s agent Noel Kelly told politicians it was time for his client to do other stuff. “He could do a famine documentary,” he suggested.

If Tubridy takes the ball and runs with it, his starting point should be a visit to the exquisite home of the first famine landlord assassinated by his tenants – the notorious murder of Major Denis Mahon in Strokestown Park, Co Roscommon in November 1847. It sent shockwaves through the British establishment and reached the ears of Queen Victoria and even the Pope.