Addthis Four letters addressed to an Irish-born priest living in Pennsylvania during the time of the Great Hunger express the pain felt by those who remained in Ireland and their desperate attempts to flee their home country, wrecked by poverty and hunger. Father Thomas Heyden was a Catholic priest living in Bedford, PA who moved to the US from Co. Carlow as a toddler. He remained in contact with people in Ireland who wrote several letters to him over the course of the worst of the Irish famine, detailing what was happening in the country. While the connection between Fr....