Here is the final pattern of my Toile, colored in the second colorway. In the end I did 5 vingettes of the 1740 famine, two of individuals, two of actual loss of food, and one of the lives lost.
The top left shows a member of the Protestant Ascendency turning their backs on the after, top right shows food from Ireland being shipped away by the England, lower left shows an empty field come time to harvest, and lower right shows a individual rioting in Dublin. At the center is a mass grave below the snow, with a mother and her children walking past. The gaeliege text, “Bliain an Air”, is what the Irish called the famine – “The Great Slaughter”
