This week’s edition of The Children’s Times explores the subject of emigration and the Great Hunger, or an Gorta Mór in Irish, that afflicted the island of Ireland in 1845-52. Every country has bleak periods in its national story, and there is always an argument about when and how they should be discussed with children. However, a nation that is not aware of its history is one that will have trouble coming to terms with the present and the future. SponsoredThe Famine casts a dark shadow on Irish history, and causes outrage and sorrow in many who examine the story in detail. Undoubtedly, the effects of the Famine were exacerbated by a cavalier attitude among some of the British elite, who saw it as an

Source: The Times February 28, 2021 00:00 UTC