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"When Johnny Comes Marching Home: A Tribute to the Irish in America's Civil War" -- A celebration of the Irish who fought valiantly for both North and South. The IBA-sponsored commemoration was spread over two continents from March 7 through March 21, 1992, and pulled together the efforts of more than 100 people and a budget of nearly $20,000.
The IBA put forward portrayals of Meagher's Irish Brigade in three parades in Manhattan and Staten Island in New York City, and in Ireland's national celebration -- the Dublin St. Patrick's Day Parade.
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Interpreting The Irish Famine, 1846-1850
It began with a blight of the potato crop that left acre upon acre of Irish farmland covered with black rot. As harvests across Europe failed, the price of food soared. Subsistence-level Irish farmers found their food stores rotting in their cellars, the crops they relied on to pay the rent to their British and Protestant landlords destroyed. Peasants who ate the rotten produce sickened and entire villages were consumed with cholera and typhus. Parish priests desperate to provide for their congregations were forced to forsake buying coffins in order to feed starving families, with the dead going unburied or buried only in the clothes they wore when they died.
University College Dublin, Ireland
Irish Tourism in the Country of Ireland
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Irish Heritage In The United States