bishop fitzpatrick, andrew carney, and patrick donahue were prominent in these boston efforts while in new york bishop john "dagger" spearheaded fundraising to help send relief to ireland. american quakers were also very prominent in this belief efforts and its citizens of nantucket contributed $2000 to the new england relief committee in the early -- in early 1840 seven, despite the fact that nantucket had suffered a horrendous loss -- in early 1847, despite the fact that nantucket had suffered a horrendous loss in a fire and they sent money to ireland. over the course of 1847 between the two major fundraising campaigns that went on, one by bishop fitzpatrick and another by yankee businessmen, coordinated a shipment of supplies by robert forbes, the total amount of their food resources is something in the neighborhood of $181,000. you would have to multiply that by about eight to get with the equivalent would be today. it was a substantial amount of money for people to give at that time. this slide shows you again how important the food crisis was in ireland, because the exports of gr