Famine Roads is now live.

I've spent years researching the human stories of An Gorta Mór — the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1852. Not the statistics. Not the policy debates. The people.

The woman who wrote to a relief committee begging for food for her five children. The men who collapsed breaking stones on public works for wages that couldn't buy bread. The families who boarded coffin ships knowing they might not survive the crossing. The children orphaned on Grosse Île who were adopted by French-Canadian families and never learned their real names.

What's Inside

Soup Kitchens & Migrant Journeys is a 14-lesson course across 4 chapters:

🌿 The Blight & the Collapse — How a fungus destroyed a nation's food supply, and why government response failed

🍲 The Soup Kitchens — Alexis Soyer's model kitchen, the workhouse system, relief compared, and voices from the queue

⚓ Migrant Journeys — Coffin ships, Grosse Île quarantine, Five Points in New York, Liverpool and Glasgow

🕯️ Legacy & Memory — How Ireland remembers (and forgot), demographic transformation, and connections to modern migration

Every lesson draws on primary sources — real letters, real records, real testimonies.

Who This Is For

• History enthusiasts who want depth, not surface

• Anyone with Irish ancestry researching their family's story

• University students and educators looking for structured famine education

• Anyone interested in migration, humanitarian history, or how societies respond to crisis

The course includes a 1-day free trial so you can read the opening lessons before committing.

The famine roads led from Ireland to the world. Walk them with us.