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Nestled in the heart of County Roscommon, amid the rolling greenery of Ireland’s Hidden Heartlands, lies a place where history breathes from the very walls: the National Famine Museum at Strokestown Park. A visit here is no ordinary tour—it is a moving, immersive journey into the darkest chapter of Ireland’s past, a place where the echoes of sorrow and survival still linger in the air. For anyone exploring the soul of Ireland, this is not merely a recommended stop—it is a must-see experience.

In the summer of 1831, famine returned to County Mayo, and the starving took to the roads in search of food. Travellers on the roads witnessed and recorded many desperate people in the fields feeding on mustard, cress, and other herbage. Convoys of horses and carts carrying food also plied the roads, and it was not long before the starving turned their attention to them. The carts had meal and flour imported through Westport, destined for markets, big houses, and famine relief depots. The authorities responded by assigning armed escorts, but hunger had disarmed people of their fear of armed soldiers and constables.

Safe Home Ireland, the Emigrant support service in Ireland, whose patron is President Michael D Higgins, recently announced details of a Fundraising Walk, The Long Road Home – Ag Siúl le Chéile.

The acclaimed new contemporary folk musical ‘In the Midst of Plenty’ will tour to the Town Hall Theatre on June 7 and 8 as part of Roscommon-based Enchanted Croí Theatre’s Irish tour. The work of a women-led creative team, the piece amplifies the seldom-told stories of impoverished women and the choices they made as they fought to survive 19th-century cottier life.

A Galway church leader is raising awareness of the hunger crisis raging in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya by hanging a bag of frankincense on her Christmas tree this festive season.

Harsh winter weather leads to severe famine.

By Una Sinnott

Members of Athlone Little Theatre will take to the boards on Saturday, June 25, to present a staged reading of a new epic poem 'An Gorta Mór Bis', based on the Great Famine, the work written by a fourth generation Irish American Thomas Milan, a retired NATO official living in Paris.

Several hundred people worldwide have registered to join human rights group Afri’s annual famine remembrance event.