"Silver dish ring, made by Cork silversmith firm Egans in 191; a wedding gift to Terence MacSwiney and his wife Muriel Murphy on the occasion of their wedding on June 9, 1917 - from the girls of Saint Íte's school."
The Great Irish Potato Famine began in 1845 and due to further potato blights and poor growing weather lasted until 1852. It had a catastrophic and long lasting effect on the Irish population. Over 1 million people died and 1 million people were…