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  When Famine Devastated West Cork

The Southern Star

1889 - 1989 Centenary Supplement.

Articles transcribed from the Centenary Supplement produced by the Southern Star in celebration of 100 years.

 

When Famine devastated West Cork
Horrifying scenes as landlords draw huge incomes
A famous letter - Cork J.P. writes to the Duke of Wellington
Horror and death as fever strikes
The Famous Debate 1881 - William Bence Jones and Father O'Leary
Cashelmore Hounds and Bence Jones in 1881
Bigotry Exposed - More on William Bence Jones
An Irish tenant would not know how to farm his land - Bence Jones
The Battle of The Big Cross - Where One Hundred Irish Died