The Night of the Big Wind in 1839 killed dozens, possibly hundreds of people, across the island.
The events of the Night of the Big Wind were recreated for Lagan Media's Oíche na Gaoithe Móire in 2015It left towns and villages in Ireland looking like battlefields and killed dozens of people, and destroyed tens of thousands of homes.
An Enniskillen Chronicle report from the time said that the sound of the wind in County Sligo was like "the deafening roar of a thousand pieces of artillery". "People might have had the fire on and the wind came in the window or door, threw the cinders up into the thatch and that would have caught fire."Residential, commercial and industrial buildings in urban areas were also damaged.
It was not just on land that the storm wrought destruction - many people were caught out in boats at the mercy of the winds.The poverty in Ireland at the time made it particularly vulnerable As well as the loss of life and the damage to the country's infrastructure, the natural landscape was also ravaged, with hundreds of thousands of trees uprooted.
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