The Irish Potato Famine

23/09/2022 32 min Temporada 1 Episodio 17
The Irish Potato Famine

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Episode Synopsis

In the 1840s a blight hit Ireland, destroying the staple crop of the Irish peasants: the potato. As a result, Ireland lost approximately one third of its population to starvation and emigration. Essentially a British colony at the time, the natural disaster in Ireland was compounded by British incompetence and indifference.