Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848, and 1849

Asenath Nicholson was a teacher, abolitionist, and reformer. In 1844, she traveled from New York to visit Ireland. She found an island in the grip of extreme poverty, a spreading potato blight and absentee landlords.

In January of 1847, she founded the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends in Dublin. The following year she traveled to the West of Ireland, visiting the impoverished and dying, and witnessed the effects of the famine in the rural counties. Annals of the Famine in Ireland in 1847, 1848, and 1849 is her first-hand account of the horror that she saw and the efforts to alleviate the suffering.