Why We Remember the Great Irish Famine
- Truly Heart-wrenching description of “Famine in Connaught” from New Brunswick Reporter and Fredericton Advertiser 1847 (READ transcription HERE)
- Lord Palmerston motives for shipping tenants to Canada
The Morning Freeman 1861. (READ transcription HERE)
- “It’s our National Duty to honour Memory of Famine victims” – Enda Kenny
- Ireland’s National Famine Commemoration Committee
- Sligo Famine Commemoration Committee
- Articles about the National Famine Commemoration activities (Irish Times)
- How Ireland’s Great Hunger was depicted in the 1800s media
- Montreal’s Ship Fever Monument: An Irish Famine Memorial in the Making (Colin McMahon, in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2007)
- On Lord Palmerston and the Irish Famine Emigration (2007, Tyler Anbinder)
Gaspé, Québec
- Gaspé Heritage | Read about the Fishermen and Merchants in 19th Century Gaspé, especially William Hyman and Sons.
- Go Gaspe Genealogy Database
- Gaspé-Est County, Quebec Genealogy
- Origins, Baptêmes, mariages, sépultures, recensements et paroisses du Québec
- Chronological List of Québec Catholic Parishes (1620-2009)
- Step-by-step Québec, Canada family research
- French Genealogical Word List
- Irish passenger lists from shipping records in Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents
Also visit: Family History and Genealogy Resources (additional page on our site)
Grosse-Isle
- Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site
- Immigrants at Grosse Île Quarantine Station, 1832-1937 (Library & Archives Canada)
- The Grosse-Isle Tragedy 1847
- Ireland’s Famine Children “Born at Sea” by Mark Holan in Prologue Magazine,Winter 2017–18, Vol. 49, no. 4 | Genealogy Notes NOTE: “The Garrick from Liverpool was nearly a nursery, with 33 children born at sea among the 478″
Other Irish Shipwrecks of Note
- Brig Miracle from Liverpool| May 19 1847 | same night as the Carricks
- Brig Exmouth of Newcastle | off Islay, Scotland April 1847
- Brig Hannah of Maryport | 29 April 1849
Interesting Resources & Stories
- “The Ocean Plague: or, A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel” (Robert Whyte, Boston: Coolidge and Wiley, 1848)
- St Patrick’s, Québec, The Building of a Church and a Parish (1827 – 1833) by Marianna O’Gallagher
- Ports of Recall: Memory of the Great Irish Famine in Liverpool and Montreal (Colin McMahon)
- Famine, Facts and Fabrication: An Examination of Diaries from the Irish Famine Migration to Canada (Mark McGowan, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2007)
- Creating Canadian Historical Memory: The Case of the Famine Migration of 1847 (Mark McGowan in Canadian Historical Association)
- Historical Sketch of Irish Community of Montreal (1887)
- New Brunswick Provincial Archives
- Irish women abandoned by their families during the Great Hunger
About Sligo and Lord Palmerston’s Irish Estates
- Sligo Heritage and Famine Legacy
- Sligo Heritage Facebook Group (led by Joe McGowan)
- County Sligo Heritage and Genealogy Centre
- About the Great Irish Famine
- Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston in Ireland