Extramural Activity

Mural on the New Lodge Road showing people on the coast, near abandoned buildings, trying to grow crops. “An tOcras Mór” (a literal translation of “the great hunger/famine” of 1845 and following) is usually in Irish “An Gorta Mór” or “An Drochshaol”.

The left-most and right-most figures are from Searching For Potatoes In A Stubble Field in the Illustrated London News. ILN images are a staple of Belfast muraling on the Great Hunger: see also Ireland’s Holocaust on the Whiterock Rd and An Gorta Mór in Ardoyne. (2002 | 2004) (Here is a list, with links, of all of the illustrations of Ireland in ILN from the period 1845-1852.)

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