now, bishop fitzpatrick, andrew carney, and patrick donahue were prominent in boston efforts. they spearheaded fundraising to help send relief to ireland. american quakers were very prominent in these relief efforts. citizens of nantucket contributed $2000 to the new england relief committee in early 1847, despite the fact that nantucket had suffered a horrendous loss in a fire six months previously. odd, they still had enough -- but, they still had enough empathy and sympathy to raise that money. over the course of 1847, between the two major fundraising campaigns, the total amount of their food resources was somewhere in the neighborhood of $181,000. multiply that by eight to get the equivalent today. that is a substantial amount of money at that time. this light shows you, again, how important the food crisis was in arland -- ireland. the exports of grain from ireland come into balance with imports rising so much in 1846, 1847, and 1848. much of this would have been relief food sent, not just from the united states, but from throughout the world. in early 1846, the sending

now, bishop fitzpatrick, andrew carney, and patrick donahue were prominent in these boston efforts, while in new york, bishop john "dagger" ewes, nicknamed dagger, spearheaded fundraising to help send relief to ireland. american quakers were very prominent in these relief efforts and citizens of nantucket contributed $2000 to the new england relief committee in early 1847 despite the fact that nantucket had suffered a horrendous loss in a fire six months previously. but they still had enough empathy and sympathy to raise that money and send it to ireland. over the course of 1847, between the two major fundraising campaigns that went on, one by bishop fitzpatrick and the other lead by a group of yankee businessmen, they coordinated the shipment -- businessmen, thick shipment -- the shipment of supplies coordinated by captain forbes, the total amount of their food resources was somewhere in the neighborhood of $181,000. you have to multiply that by about eight to get what the equivalent would be today, so a substantial amount of money for people to give at that time. and this slide shows yo

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 -- 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 grain from ireland kind of come into balance with the imports with imports rising so much in 18