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.
Show Info
Schedule: Mondays at 21:00
(50 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type:
Documentary
Genres:
History
Episodes ordered: 2 episodes
(waiting for more votes)
Previous Episode
Emigration
Episode 1x02; Sep 11, 1995
In the second of two programmes, Dublin-born writer Ian Gibson tells how thousands of the Irish poor died on board the "coffin ships" that carried them across the Atlantic to the fever sheds of Quebec and the slums of New York. He explores some of th…
Previous Episodes
| Episode Name | Airdate | Trailer |
|---|---|---|
| 1x02: Emigration | Sep 11, 1995 | |
| 1x01: Blight | Sep 4, 1995 |
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Extra Details
Also known as:
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The Great Irish Famine (
United States)