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Letters of the Famine, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper:

Letters of the Famine, in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper:
About 1.5 million Irish immigrants sailed to U.S. ports during the Great Famine of the mid-19th century, most of them starving and disease-weakened. Their arrival prompted plenty of news coverage and debate, much like today’s reporting about immigration and the Trump administration’s travel ban.....