I recall seeing an article regarding an interview with a US Civil War veteran in the 1950's [1] which made me think, the Irish Famine was only some 150 years ag

I recall seeing an article regarding an interview with a US Civil War veteran in the 1950's [1] which made me think, the Irish Famine was only some 150 years ago. It would have been likely that as recent as say, the 1930's you may have still had living survivors - and by extension, their stories of what they saw may yet be in living memory - it definitely would have still been in the 1970's. [1] - http://attic.areavoices.com/2011/03/01/listen-to-a-1954-interview-with-the-last-surviving-union-civil-war-vet/ http://attic.areavoices.com/2011/03/01/listen-to-a-1954-inte...