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The Great Hunger Begins (The Great Famine Part V)




As the harvest of 1845 approached, rumours circulated through Ireland that a mysterious disease was attacking the potato crop. While well informed botanists in London grew increasingly anxious about what lay ahead, many Irish peasants dependent on potatoes had little idea what was happening.


When the harvest did fail, the Great Famine had begun. Terror gripped the population and I look at what the British authorities did to respond.

“From the creator of the Irish History Podcast comes the story of Modern Ireland and its people written in death” 

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