Walk a mile in their Shoes

Stretching from Counties Roscommon to Dublin, the National Famine Way pays tribute to our courageous ancestors, writes Domhnall O’Donoghue

“Our families are really and truly suffering in our presence, and we cannot much longer withstand their cries for food. We have no food for them, our potatoes are rotten, and we have no grain."

Irish History


Most days, I walk along the Royal Canal, herons, swans and moorhens providing me company. Apart from enthusiastic joggers huffing and puffing or the din of cars storming the distant motorways, the atmosphere is quiet and reflective. The still waters,...

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