Ireland announces a scholarship programme to allow people from the Choctaw nation study in Ireland, in recognition of the support provided to Ireland during the famine by the Choctaw people. • r/worldnews

The Ottoman Sultan also tried to send £10,000 to Ireland but Queen Victoria intervened and requested he reduce that amount to £1,000 because she had only sent £2,000. He then secretly sent five ships full of food to Ireland. They reached Ireland despite English attempts to block the ships.

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