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Teaching topic: The Great Famine / An Gorta Mór: Cross-curricular opportunities

This guide pulls together resources on the famine in Ireland (1845-1852) for teaching purposes.

Suggested integration across the Irish primary curriculum

Mathematics curriculum (think food shortages and exports)

  • number 
  • counting
  • operations

Geography curriculum

  • people and communities (think emigration)
  • trade and development issues (human environments, senior classes. Think food shortages and exports)
  • weather, climate and atmosphere

Science curriculum

  • plant and animal life

SPHE curriculum

  • health and well-being
  • food and nutrition