The Scattering - an epic story of Ireland's Great Famine

The Scattering Project ^ | March 1, 2002 | patrick monaghan

[Felis demulcta mitis]

The Scattering is based on the book "Because They Never Do" by Patrick Erin Monaghan. This upcoming film will tell the untold, haunting love story of a young Irish couple who endure the horrors of the Great Irish Famine.

This Part 1 of a 5 part series to bring to bring to life the true story of the Great Irish Famine through the eyes of a young couple - Michael and Mary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=c4IwVV7gufU

[Betis70]

Half my Irish family came in the 1850s. The other part came in the 1880s.

They were from County Mayo and County Galway (respectively): County Mayo was especially hard hit by the blight and famine. I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing the County Mayo part of the family was escaping the famine.

[muawiyah]

Forgot to mention it but there were SEVERAL famines in the 1800s. The first one occurs roughly between 1810 to 1813. That overlaps an exciting period in the Napoleonic Wars. It usually isn't mentioned as part of European history since it only hit the European Arctic, parts of Western Russia, and Central Asia ~ with a huge chunk of Siberia and China.

Virtually all the Sa'ami in the Sapma moved West and South out of the Kola peninsula. Siberia was denuded of animals all the way to the Pacific. That's one of the reasons the fur hunters traveled all the way around Siberia on the Arctic passage (in season) to get furs in Alaska. They also found they needed to buy vegetables for human consumption from the Spanish in the San Francisco Bay region.

Every now and then someone will mention a famine in the late 1700s ~ but it's not well documented so no one knows where it hit.

[Betis70]

I should clarify, the County Mayo part of the family show up in the 1850 census, which is why I suspect they were escaping the famine.

[Hot Tabasco]

I don’t understand, is this a documentary coming to cable TV, the theaters or a DVD?

[Betis70]

Interesting info.

From what I understand the Great Famine killed as many people as those who were able to flee Ireland (about a million of each).

Apparently there was another famine in the 1879-1880 in the west of Ireland, which might explain why my County Galway family finally fled, though I have distant relatives that live there.

[Betis70]

Coming to Youtube I suspect.

[wordsofearnest]

County Longford prior to 1836.

[driftless2]

If you mean Frank O’Connor I read a volume of his short stories some years ago. Can’t remember much of them unfortunately.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My family came from County Cork during “An Gorta Mor”
(The Great Hunger). I don’t think I can watch this film. Its too heartbreaking.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4IwVV7gufU