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The Great Hunger Begins | The Great Famine V
The Great Hunger Begins | The Great Famine V
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Mar 20, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
As the harvest of 1845 approached in Ireland, rumours circulated 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. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Mar 20, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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