Famine! How could your family survive? That’s the life-changing question that 12-year-old Esther faces, as we go back to the Irish Potato Famine of 1845 on this World Wednesday. As the blight makes potatoes rot when they’re dug up, poor Irish rental farmers and their families starve to death with their main food source gone. … Continue reading Esty’s Gold, by Mary Arrigan (fiction) – from Irish famine to Australia’s goldfields