The museum tells the story of the Great Famine through the personal tragedies of the tenants on the Strokestown Estate and of their landlords, the once prosperous Pakenham Mahon family.

Pat Sydlo-Arshan spent decades wondering about her Irish heritage, carrying fragments of family ... At 73, she finally walked through the door of her great-grandfather's cottage in County Roscommon, ...

Pat Sydlo-Arshan spent decades wondering about her Irish heritage ... the door of her great-grandfather's cottage in County Roscommon, Ireland — a home her family has maintained for over ...