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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

76 Ireland’s Teardrop, Fastnet Rock

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we set sail with Neil, past Fasnet Rock, fleeing the horror of famine.

 

The Vikings called it Hvasstann-ey, ‘the island shaped like a sharp tooth’, the Irish knew it first as Carraig Aonair, ‘the Lonely Rock’, then as Fastnet, ‘Ireland’s Teardrop’.


A treacherous island, little more than a jagged rock, it has been responsible for countless shipwrecks and deaths at sea. It was the last part of Ireland many emigrants saw as they sailed to North America to escape the Great Hunger and many a teardrop was shed over it.


A rock wreathed in sadness and tears, standing as a fitting memorial to lives lost at sea and the lives driven off to be lived elsewhere.

 

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0:42.4

Hello fellow time travellers I hope you're well. Before we get started I just

0:46.3

want to let you know about my Patreon site which helps support this

0:49.7

podcast. Every week I post a new video there which is filmed here at my home in Sterling in my office.

0:57.0

Over the next couple of weeks I'll be running a competition based on this podcast.

1:02.0

Yeah, it's competition time, finally. Never thought I'd hear

1:04.7

myself saying those words. And three winners will receive a personalized copy of my

1:08.6

new book, The Story of the World in 100 moments. So as well as competitions and new weekly videos there's also a whole

1:15.8

archive of films to watch that Paul and I have built up over the last months, offering

1:20.9

a bit of personalized insight into the subjects that fascinate us and how our brains work.

1:27.0

It's the stuff that keeps us sane.

1:29.0

Anyway to get your hands on all of this, go to patreon. com and search for me nail Oliver and I will look

1:35.4

forward to seeing you there right that's the patreon advert done here comes

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