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An Emigrant Ship in Dublin Bay
Edwin Hayes’s fine 1853 oil painting shows an emigrant ship in Dublin bay in the evening sunset. The careful choice of colour and the ... |
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Emigrants on the Quays, Cork c.1840
This fine anonymous oil painting was done several years before the famine. Emigration was common in the decades before the famine, but ... |
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Sketch of Emigrants on the quay at Cork
Emigration from Ireland was a popular subject for the artists of the Illustrated London News. This piece appeared in 1851. |
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The Mercian Difficulty
This fascinating painting titled, The Mercian Difficulty, shows an old woman studying a newspaper for information on the American Civil ... |
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A Priest’s Blessing
This sketch from the Illustrated London News shows a priest giving his blessing to a group of departing emigrants in 1851. |
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Voyage to America
This simple 1850 illustration shows Irish emigrants on their way to America. Many had great hopes for their new life and they enjoyed ... |
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Immigrants Disembarking at the Battery, New York
This Samuel Waugh painting – Immigrants disembarking at the Battery, Castle Garden, New York – was done around 1855. The scene reflects ... |
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Despair of the Cottiers
This illustration appeared in the Pictorial Times in August 1846. It captures the despair of a cottier family dealing with the reality ... |
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Bog Village
This famous sketch from the Illustrated London News shows Co. Roscommon’s bog village which came into existence between 1780 and 1845 as ... |
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Tullig village
This sketch of unroofed houses in the village of Tullig in the Kilrush district of Clare has become a famous symbol of the Famine. ... |
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