Keywords: Irish potato famine Bridget O'Donnel.jpg Depiction of the Irish potato famine The Sketch of a Woman and Children represents Bridget O'Donnel Her story is briefly this -- ' we were put out last November; we owed some rent I was at this time lying in fever they commenced knocking down the house and had half of it knocked down when two neighbours women Nell Spellesley and Kate How carried me out I was carried into a cabin and lay there for eight days when I had the creature the child born dead I lay for three weeks after that The whole of my family got the fever and one boy thirteen years old died with want and with hunger while we were lying sick http //web archive org/web/20060912005225/http //news siu edu/news/April02/040302p2036 html Image http //web archive org/web/20110401030101/http //adminstaff vassar edu/sttaylor/FAMINE/Master/BridgetODonnel html Caption 1849-12-22 Illustrated London News December 22 1849 PD-old-70-1923 Potato famine of Ireland Famine in art ILN 1849 |