#OtD 17 Mar 1846 one of the first boats of famine refugees left Dublin for New York. During the next five years more than a million people followed and a similar number died in the manufactured famine. However, the rural poor continued to resist https://t.co/0Z2komvpKB https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8902/first-famine-refugees-depart-dublin-on-st-patrick%E2%80%99s-day-1846?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon