The Great Famine(1995)
Documentary
First Air Date: 1995-09-04
Average Runtime: 49m
Rating: 0.0
Votes: 0
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 2
In September 1845, a devastating new plant disease swept across Ireland, destroying the potato crops on which the majority of the people depended. Aid from the British government was too little and too late. Over the subsequent six years, a million Irish people died of starvation and a more than a million others fled abroad in order to escape the ravages of hunger and disease.
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Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries
Episodes: 2E01
Blight
Air Date: 1995-09-04
In the first of two programmes marking the 150th anniversary of the start of the famine, Dublin-born writer Ian Gibso...
E02
Emigration
Air Date: 1995-09-11
In the second of two programmes, Dublin-born writer Ian Gibson tells how thousands of the Irish poor died on board th...
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