Black ’47 – A World Turned Upside Down (1847) The Great Famine Part X

This continues the story of the Great Famine into the notorious year of Black ’47 by returning to the town of Skibbereen.

The show looks at how life in the town changed, detailing the horrifying lives many had to endure. However starvation was not the only way the famine changed Ireland and the show opens by looking at the unusual story of James Dillon, a coroner in Co Offaly who was tasked with investigating two suspicious deaths in December 1846.