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++ The Great Hunger Rules & Lore ++

The Great Hunger looms ever closer…

The public playtest document for The Great Hunger is now available! You can check them out on our website using the link below.
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The Great Hunger Playtest rules are now available! - Trench Crusade
The public playtest document for The Great Hunger, created with Creature Caster, is now available!
www.trenchcrusade.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:49 PM
mccartneyjoe.bsky.social
“That truth should be silent ... ?” ~ Antony and Cleopatra (A2,S2).
#ShakespeareSunday #AnGortaMór #TheGreatHunger
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Strained glass window depicting various scenes from the Great Hunger in Ireland.
November 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
paint-daemon.bsky.social
“HEY HONEY! COME QUICK, CREATURE CASTER AND TRENCH CRUSADE JUST RELEASED HORRORS BEYOND OUR IMAGINATION!” The first model from The Great Hunger is so FUCKING COOL!!!!!
#TrenchCrusade #CreatureCaster #TheGreatHunger
March 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
theunrepentables.bsky.social
He missed the part about what the English landlords did to the Scots and the Irish - you know - the mass evictions and cruel starvation which created the Scot and Irish Diaspora. #TheGreatHunger #TheScotDiaspora #TheIrishDiaspora
February 16, 2026 at 6:51 AM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Connemara Girls” by Sir Thomas Alfred Jones (Irish) - Oil on canvas / c. 1880 - Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University (Hamden, Connecticut) #WomenInArt #ThomasAlfredJones #IrelandsGreatHungerMuseum #IrishArt #GenrePainting #1880s #artText #art #BlueskyArt #IrishArtist #TheGreatHunger
Painted around 1880 and decades after An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger in Ireland which lasted from 1845 to at least 1852 and was previously called the Great Famine), the work sits in Irish artist Thomas Alfred Jones’s “Irish Colleen” mode depicting an idealized image of rural Irish girlhood that blends endurance with visual lyricism. The bare feet, gathered fuel/food, and an exposed trail hint at labor and scarcity, yet the girls’ composed expressions and almost theatrical color accents (reds and tartans) steer the painting toward reassurance rather than reportage. Knighted in 1880 after starting as an abandoned child raised in Dublin, Jones depicts three young girls who dominate the foreground of a windswept mountain pass, seen as if we’re standing on higher ground. All three are barefoot on a stony path. Their skin appears light, their cheeks subtly warmed by low light. Each wears layered, work-worn clothing: long skirts, aprons, and heavy shawls pulled tight against the breeze. On the left, one girl’s vivid red skirt catches our eye. She carries a basket that is heavy with provisions gathered for the way home. In the center, a red-haired girl’s plaid shawl frames her face and shoulders with a pack slung across her back, shifting her posture forward with effort. On the right, the youngest clutches her apron’s gathered fold with one hand and grips her white shawl with the other, bracing against wind gusts. Behind them, Connemara opens into rugged, barren land washed in summer twilight that softens the hard terrain while the wind animates every hem, fringe, and fold. This might be a late-Victorian attempt to craft a dignified, marketable icon of “the West,” even as Connemara was widely associated with poverty and famine legacy. Wind becomes a quiet protagonist as it presses the girls together, turns their shawls into protective architecture, and makes care and kinship feel like the painting’s true subject showing three lives moving forward, burdened but unbroken.
March 6, 2026 at 6:35 PM
pixelhart.bsky.social
Genocide, thegreathunger, ceramics, 2024

Pixel art done by thegreathunger at r/Art.
#pixelart #pixel #art #indiedev
Image made by thegreathunger
January 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
mazzamonk.bsky.social
Famine - Rowan Gillespie
There are seven bronze figures on Custom House Quay in Dublin.
There are only five figures in Toronto.
Seven left. Five arrived.
rowangillespie.net/famine/famine/
#loveart #thattick #Sculpture #IrishHistory #TrueIrishStories #IrelandPark #TheGreatHunger #IrishCanadian
August 27, 2026 at 10:18 AM
maelbrigde.bsky.social
I'm watching the ITV series, Victoria. I've never seen The Great Hunger touched on in an English program before. It was very moving. Overplaying Queen Victoria’s concern allowed the program to highlight otherwise unknown issues for UK viewers.💔

#TheGreatHunger #IrishPotatoFamine #DecoloniseHistory
January 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
wargamer.com
“Yes, it is dark”, says The Great Hunger’s publisher, historical board game company Compass Games, “but it deserves to be remembered.” ⬇️

#TheGreatHunger #BoardGames #TabletopGames
www.wargamer.com/the-great-hu...
This Kickstarter board game surprised us by tackling a harrowing Irish tragedy
"Yes, it is dark", says The Great Hunger's publisher, historical board game company Compass Games, "but it deserves to be remembered."
www.wargamer.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
celticscribbler.bsky.social
My thanks to @irish_examinerusa for publishing my article about @ighm.fairfield and our inaugural Founders’ Gala.

What an amazing first time event!

Be sure to visit the upcoming exhibition at @fairfieldquick in the Walsh Gallery.

#irishfamine
#irishfaminehistory
#angortamór
#thegreathunger
April 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
pissedashell1.bsky.social
16/26 for my #26in2026 #booksky #horror #TheGreatHunger #anGortaMór is This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud. A gothic novel that combines Irish Folk Horror with historical Horror-The Great Hunger in Ireland in the late 1840's. The details of the evils done...

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...
This House Will Feed
Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a you…
www.goodreads.com
July 16, 2026 at 4:29 PM
celticscribbler.bsky.social


Hoping that 2025 will be a good year for artists, writers, creators, historians, & sculptors, reminding us that history is worth reading & learning about. It has & continues to inspire great works of art.

2025 marks the 180th anniversary of #IrishFamine

#180yearsofIrishheritage
#Thegreathunger
December 30, 2024 at 6:54 PM
billylinehan.bsky.social
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly?
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs
by @fotoole.bsky.social

#theGreatHunger #anGortaMor #theFamine
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.
www.newyorker.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
celticscribbler.bsky.social
Railroad workers, the "Bridgets" of Norwalk, and the son of a Famine immigrant from Dublin are all eager to share their stories through photos and historical facts.

March is Irish Heritage Month. Part of a series of slideshows in CT in March. See you there!

#Irishfamine
#Thegreathunger #IGHMF
February 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
craddock1.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
#IrishFamine #Famine #TheGreatHunger #Ireland #AnGortaMór #Ireland #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #GreatBritain #IrishAmerica
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.
www.newyorker.com
March 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
oldcowjayne.bsky.social
Irish Famine orphan girls - stepping from the shadows of history #Australia #famine #TheGreatHunger #Ireland #orphans #history #culture
www.irishcentral.com/roots/histor...
Irish Famine orphan girls - stepping from the shadows of history
IrishCentral Contributor Siobhan O'Neill on the importance of commemorating the Irish orphan girls who were sent to Australia during The Great Hunger.
www.irishcentral.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 AM
fionnbharr.bsky.social
Ireland's Famine museum unveils Choctaw Nation memorial in Roscommon

www.irishcentral.com/news/ireland...

#famine #IrishFamine #TheGreatHunger #roscommon #ChoctawNation #TheGift
Ireland's Famine museum unveils Choctaw Nation memorial in Roscommon
A bronze sculpture titled "The Gift" commemorating the generous aid provided by the Choctaw Nation to Ireland during the Famine, was unveiled outside the National Famine Museum, at Strokestown Park, i...
www.irishcentral.com
August 7, 2024 at 8:14 PM
conormolloy.eurosky.social
🎩 to @dwnews good report from @UNEP on land use. @IFAmedia say grass is our best asset, but herd needs to move to dual use (dairy & beef) Irish beef cattle are a legacy of #TheGreatHunger
Biodiversity: Food 'key driver' of accelerating death of wildlife

p.dw.com/p/3oiNa
Food 'key driver' for wildlife loss
Eating more plants and less meat would take pressure off land needed to feed a growing world, according to a UN report. Experts say organic farming alone is not the answer.
p.dw.com
November 29, 2024 at 3:40 PM
miriamkennedy.bsky.social
Potato blight warning.. We're probably exporting more Irish beef now than was taken from our lands whilst our people were forced to starve. 2026, what's left, we spend between €7 to €11 now for 454g of mince/ground beef. #AnGortaMór #TheGreatHunger #PotatoBlight #PotatoFamine #EconomicFamine
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Yellow Weather warning issued by met.ie
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Blight advisory for Ireland
From 19/09/2026 13:20 to 23/09/2026 13:00
A potato blight advisory is in effect. For details, please see the Farming Commentary under the Forecast tab.
September 19, 2026 at 12:43 PM
celticscribbler.bsky.social
alison.com/course/the-g...

It is free, it is factual, so spread the word. Links to archival material and more modules on the way! #Irishfamine #Angortamor #thegreathunger
The Great Irish Famine: History, Diaspora, and Global Legacy | Alison
Learn the history of the Great Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór) in this free course. Explore 19th-century context, ancestral research records, and the Irish diaspora
alison.com
July 31, 2026 at 12:41 PM
roundsparrow.bsky.social
#FWakeY1845 #FWakeYear1845 #FWakeIreland
#FWakeBlight #FWakeFish #FWakeFishing
#TheGreatHunger #FWakeGreatHunger /\ #TheGreatFamine #FWakeGreatFamine
#FWake6kilos /\ #FWakeFamine
#FWakePawnShop /\

www.youtube.com/watch?v=17RE...
Why didn't Irish people eat fish during the Great Famine
YouTube video by Irish History Podcast
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March 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
celticscribbler.bsky.social
My thanks to Irish Central for publishing my article about the Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum of Fairfield & Gaelic-American Club gathering for Irish Famine Commemoration Day 2025 ceremony

www.irishcentral.com/opinion/othe...

#irishfamine
#irishfaminecommemorationday
#Angortamor
#TheGreatHunger
Fairfield hosts Irish Famine Commemoration Day to honor resilience and remembrance
IrishCentral Contributor Loretto Leary on the 2025 Annual Irish Famine Commemoration Day Ceremony at the Gaelic American Club in Fairfield, Connecticut.
www.irishcentral.com
May 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
celticscribbler.bsky.social
My thanks to @irishechonewspaper for publishing my article about this year’s location for the National Famine Commemoration Day ceremony in Ireland- #kilmallock in #countylimerick

www.irishecho.com/2025/5/natio...

#Irishfamine
#Angortamor
#thegreathunger
#ifcd
National Famine Commemoration Set for Limerick
On March 5, Limerick TD and Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced that the 2025 National Famine Commemoration would be held in ...
www.irishecho.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:19 PM
celticscribbler.bsky.social
Location of the next Irish Famine Commemoration Day ceremony- #kilmallock
in County Limerick. Stay tuned for Irish Famine history about this location!

#Irishfamine
#angortamor
#thegreathunger
March 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
celticscribbler.bsky.social
My thanks to Janet and all at the Groton Public Library and all the people who showed up at my talk, The Irish Famine Immigrants of Connecticut today.

Great crowd, great questions, and great history ☘️🇮🇪

#IGHMF
#irishfamine
#Irishfamineimmigrantsofct
#IrishHeritageMonth
#TheGreatHunger
March 9, 2025 at 11:24 PM