We have had quite a journey through the Famine era.

We’ve seen John Behan’s Coffin Ship sculpture in Murrisk after we engaged with it on Google Classroom in Visual Art.

We explored the topic in various texts, and explored the reasons for the Irish Famine- a complex web of cause and effect.

We took parallel journeys from the incredible tale of the Choctaw Tribe as they made their Long March and remembered the Irish in 1847, to a tale of a little Jewish girl who travelled across the sea to start a new life in New York, and make a future for herself, armed with her wits and skills.

We heard local tales of emigration and explored patterns of emigration that have long-term effects on Irish people today, indeed in our very own classroom.

We then chose to write journals or newspaper accounts of experiences people of the time may have had, having investigated written and photographic records from the time- we used our investigative skills and thought like historians!