Images of the West Cork Coastline

The Great Irish Famine of the 1840’s was 19th Century Europe’s worst humanitarian crisis. At least one million people died, approximately 12.5% of the country’s population, and a further 2.1 million people emigrated in the decade from 1845 to 1855.

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‘You can’t eat scenery’ is an old saying about the difficulty of making a living in beautiful but remote places. West Cork, from Kinsale to the Lee Valley, is such a place.

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