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Date Posted: 19:10:37 09/09/02 Mon
Author: Intro
Subject: Curriculum

Our N-W Committee has managed, after much effort to convey the illustrated U.S-created curriculum on to one disc. We offer these free of charge, but would welcome a small donation towards P & P. Use the 'contact forum admin' facility if you are a teacher or a student doing a project. Supply will of course depend on demand, bearing in mind that our resources are extremely limited. What follows below, and above are the units without the fine illustrations. Thank you for your interest in our entirely voluntary educational endeavours.

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The Great Irish Famine


DIGGING FOR POTATOES



Approved by the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education on September 10th, 1996, for inclusion in the Holocaust and Genocide Curriculum at the secondary level. Revision submitted 11/26/98.



DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This curriculum is dedicated to the millions of Irish who suffered and perished in the Great Starvation. It is also dedicated to those who escaped by emigration, and to the great Irish Diaspora worldwide.

The Irish Famine Curriculum would not have been possible without the work of New Jersey Senator James E. McGreevey, Rutgers Economics Professor Jack Worrall, historian Dr. Christine Kinealy, teacher Jim Masker, and author Liz Curtis.

We express our gratitude to Eoin McKiernan, Fr. Des Wilson, the late Dennis Clark, and the late Michael J. Kane, who have shown us their Faith by their Works.

"Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shown, and there alone..."

- W.B. Yeats, 1921



TEACHER'S INTRODUCTION

Between 1845 and 1850, more than a million Irish people starved to death while massive quantities of food were being exported from their country. A half million were evicted from their homes during the potato blight, and a million and a half emigrated to America, Britain and Australia, often on-board rotting, overcrowded "coffin ships". This is the story of how that immense tragedy came to pass.

The necessary historical and political context for a study of the Irish Famine is provided to you in the Teacher and Student Summary, immediately following the Table of Contents.

It would be very difficult for the student to understand any of the six study units that follow without first reading the Summary. If time constraints only permit the study of one or two sections of this curriculum, the Summary should be used first. Thank you for all your efforts to make this history come alive.


Prepared by the Irish Famine Curriculum Committee, James Mullin,Chairman: 757 Paddock Path, Moorestown, NJ 08057 (609)727-4255, FAX: (609)866-9538, email: JVMullin@aol.com

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