A family bids farewell to relatives leaving for America.
Photograph of the same blight on a potato plant.
Phytophthora infestans (the blight) at a molecular level.
Potatoes infected with the same blight that caused the potato famine across Ireland
Drawing of a peasant mother with her children. The lower class were affected the most in the famine's wake.
Two peasant children are in destitution due to the affects of the famine
A map of Kerry, the county from which the Prendergasts originated
Peasants desperately try to harvest the blighted potatoes
A starving family, malnourished because of the blight, is show slowly dying
The first letter in the Prendergast correspondence, it was the only letter that was not written by a family member, but instead by the current employer of son Thomas