A Farewell to Famine.
Author: REES, Jim.
Arklow: Dee-Jay Publications, 2005 (reprint). 174 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
In 1850, an aging priest named Fr Thomas Hore led a group of over 1000 people from their homes in counties Wicklow and Wexford to start new lives in the American Mid-West. This was no blind flight from famine, but a concerted attempt organised by the Bishop of Little Rock to establish and Irish Catholic colony in Arkansas. A series of setbacks broke the cohesion of the group which splintered into six, settling in places as diverse as New Orleans, Arkansas, Texas, Missouri and Iowa (where some of them established a township called Wexford). A Farewell to Famine follows the group’s progress from their departure from Ireland to their brief stay in Liverpool and the Atlantic voyage. More importantly, it shows the other side of the famine emigration experience - what happened to individual families, as well as the group as a whole, when they reached America. The names of 847 of those who travelled with Fr Hore form a fascinating appendix to this story, which has been pieced together from information uncovered in archives in Ireland, Britain and the United States, as well as family papers in the possession of descendants in America. Includes a list of passengers who travelled on the `Ticonderoga’, `Loodianah’ and the `Chasca’.
ISBN: 0951923919
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