FLEEING THE FAMINE airing on The History Channel UK
Posted in General on 05/04/2009 04:31 pm by ballinranTo our friends in Ireland and the UK, Death or Canada – known as Fleeing The Famine in the UK – will be airing several times in the month of May. Please help us spread the word.
Here is a great review/discussion from a recent viewer, Michael Caine, in Waterford, Ireland – the ancestral home of Bishop Michael Power!!
Just finished watching the above programme on the History Channel. Originally screened on RTE, it tells the story of the Willis family, who travelled on one of the coffin ships with their four children to Toronto.
It is one of the most harrowing pieces of television I have ever watched, and I must admit to shedding a tear while viewing it.

05/28/2009 at 6:21 pm
Thanks, good article.