Doug Anderson reflects on the Irish Potato Famine in a variety of paintings and drawings that interpret the Famine factually while trying to suggest its relevance today. As part of the research of the Great Famine, he undertook the 103-mile National Famine Way trail, a physical connection to the harrowing forced exodus of 1,490 tenants evicted by their landlord Denis Mahon in 1847. Beginning at the Mahon Manor in Strokestown, now the National Famine Museum, Doug mirrored their 5-8-day journey walking along the Royal Canal to Dublin, sharing a small part of their struggle as they were escorted to the infamous "coffin ships" for passage to Canada and the United States.​