An Gorta Mór
It was in a pub at Roundwood, Co. Wicklow, in mid August, that I first considered the question. How was it possible for Ireland to have suffered such a devastating famine in the 19th century? Is it not an island surrounded by open waters full of fish? Were there not streams and rivers full of nutritious salmon and trout? Oysters, mussels and clams grew by the coasts, did they not?
