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EP1 Causes of Poverty Mar 25, 1992

“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.

EP2 The Irish Holocaust Apr 01, 1992

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.

EP3 Managing the Famine Apr 08, 1992

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?

EP4 The Exodus Apr 15, 1992

“If crosses and tombs could be erected on the water, the whole route of the emigrant vessels from Europe to America would long since have assumed the appearance of a crowded cemetery” So wrote an American emigration official in the middle of the 19th Century. Emigration wasn’t an escape from death and destruction for everyone.

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Released: 25 March 1992 Ended

Producted By: Radharc Films

Country: Ireland

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Synopsis

A four-part series tracing the sequence of events that became known as the Great Irish Famine.

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