Word: gorta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger (1845-1849), the worst in a series of famines that ravaged Ireland, was a period of great trial for a people already deeply affected by 800 years of English occupation and tyranny. Most had been reduced to lives of subsistence farming. English laws and landlords did not allow the trade of traditional Irish goods and grazed their own cattle upon large chunks of Irish land that they now "owned." Catholics were discriminated against, tenants were evicted, and the Irish language was forcibly superceded by English...
...foot-tall sculpture of an emaciated woman holding her dead child as she watches her grown son leave with her other child provides a depiction of a family and country broken apart by famine. The granite base is engraved with a dedication to the victims of "An Gorta Mor," The Great Hunger...
| 1 |