How an 1847 Choctaw donation to Ireland now funds students through @UCC scholarship

Historic act of generosity during the Great Famine continues to shape cultural ties and educational opportunities nearly two centuries later

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41813261.html

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an gorta mór

Context: During the Irish Great Famine (potato famine), the Ottomans wanted to send £10,000 in aid. The British denied it as the Queen had only sent £2,000 and didn’t want her to be upstaged - so the Ottomans reduced it down to £1,000.

"Padraic Scanlan’s Rot: A History of the #IrishFamine doesn’t seek to overturn this consensus but Scanlan’s central claim is in some ways an echo of Mitchel’s: although #Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, it was, he writes, ‘imagined, governed and exploited in strikingly colonial ways ... The famine – a complex ecological, economic, logistical and political disaster – was a consequence of colonialism.’ "

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth

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🌾 Famine. Rain. Desperation.

In 1315, Europe’s golden age drowned in endless storms and died of starvation

Discover how the Great Famine of 1315 reshaped the medieval world and began the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages on our latest #podcast episode

#medieval #GreatFamine