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Where Famine's First Victims Gave Birth to a Saint of Family Prayer

November 19th, 1846 marked one of the darkest moments in Irish history when Father Michael O'Flynn, parish priest of Attymass, penned a desperate letter to local Justice of the Peace George Vaughan Jackson, reporting that four parishioners had died from hunger - the first offi…

Attymass is a small place in County Mayo. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.