When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine (1992)
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When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine
1992
A four-part series tracing the sequence of events that became known as the Great Irish Famine.
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“In all countries paupers may be discovered, but an entire nation of paupers is what never was seen until it was shown in Ireland”. Gustave de Beaumont was one of the many who commented on the severe state of Ireland in the 19th century.
Michael Buerk alerted the world to the crisis in Ethiopia in 1985 with television pictures. In 1846 the journalist of the London News played the same role for the Irish Famine.
John Mitchell claimed that during all the Famine years, Ireland actually produced sufficient food, wool, and the flax to feed and clothe not nine but eighteen million people. Was the Irish Famine the result of mismanagement?
A four-part series tracing the sequence of events that became known as the Great Irish Famine.
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