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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

75 The Great Hunger - An Gorta Mór, County Cork

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode a dark shadow falls across all of Ireland. A time of unimaginable pain and suffer, which has caused a deep wound between the British Isles ever after. It is known as An Gorta Mor or The Great Hunger. For years starvation stalked the land and over a million people died of hunger as ships fully laden and brimming with food left the Irish ports.

Standing on the edge of a mass grave in Skibbereen Cemetery Neil comes face to face with the human tragedy.


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0:00.0

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0:04.5

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0:06.7

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Maybe Raj, watching the racewalk and thinking I could do that.

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rules and procedures apply players must be 18 or over.

0:22.4

Hello fellow time travellers I hope you're well. To help support this

0:25.6

podcast sign up to my Patreon site and each week you'll receive an exclusive

0:30.4

vodcast that's recorded here in my home in Sterling and it features a mix of history and comment and current affairs.

0:37.0

Also on the site there's a whole archive of films that Paul and I have already recorded.

0:42.8

There's one about James Bond.

0:44.6

There's another about the graves of ancient lovers

0:47.4

found locked in eternal embrace.

0:50.0

There's a podcast about the history of pandemics, another about the Spartan warriors who inspired the film 300.

0:56.1

The Battle of Britain's there.

0:57.7

Anyway, I'm sure you get a sense of it.

0:59.5

And to get your hands on the whole collection, go to Patreon.com and search for me, Neil Oliver, and I'll look forward to seeing you there.

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Okay, that's the advert about my Patreon site. Here comes this week's podcast.

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Q the music.

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It was happening to

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it was happening to people

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