A four-part series tracing the sequence of events that became known as the Great Irish Famine.
Ended
When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine
March 25, 1992
April 15, 1992
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“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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