An Abandoned Village and Ireland's Newest Beach: Achill Island Day 1
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Join Fin as he treks around Achill island visiting Ireland's newest beach and the ruins of a famine era village.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | Hey folks and welcome to what's a pretty unusual episode of the Irish |
| 0:26.7 | History podcast as many of you may be aware I'm currently on Akel Island where |
| 0:31.4 | I'm looking at the story of the famine here. |
| 0:34.0 | Over the next couple of days I'm going to be making a series of podcasts, videos and photo essays about life here during the 1840s. |
| 0:41.0 | While most of this is going to be uploaded to Patreon and will only be |
| 0:45.1 | available to patrons I did want to give all of you a sense of what Ackle is like and |
| 0:50.4 | what survives from the famine. |
| 0:53.0 | So over the next 10 or 15 minutes, I've recorded a series of segments of different places I visited today. |
| 1:00.0 | These include the abandoned village of Schlieve Moore, which was lived in up until the 1840s, |
| 1:06.0 | before that community moved to the village of Duwa. |
| 1:09.7 | There's also segments about various different aspects of life in the 1840s. |
| 1:15.2 | If you like this show and want to hear more there's going to be a lot of content uploaded |
| 1:19.5 | to Patreon over the next couple of days. |
| 1:21.8 | Already this morning I've uploaded a |
| 1:23.5 | podcast about the story of Ackle during the famine so that's available right now. |
| 1:27.7 | Tomorrow there will be another podcast with interviews with archaeologists who are currently excavating another village that was abandoned |
| 1:36.2 | just after the famine and their findings are really fascinating. |
| 1:40.4 | So if you want to get that and so much more just go to patreon.com |
| 1:44.9 | slash Irish podcast that's patreon dot com forward slash Irish podcast |
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