An Eye for an Eye: Evictions & Assassinations | The Great Famine XVIII
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Over the course of the Great Famine, hundreds of thousands of Irish people were evicted from their homes.
As ruthless landlords showed no pity, eviction was a death sentence for many starving tenants who were made homeless.
It was inevitable these evictions provoked resistance. On November 2nd 1847, the most famous assassination of the Great Famine took place in North Roscommon.
This podcast details the background of this assassination and how it relates to the wider story of other mass evictions in Ireland in the late 1840s.
The episode also tries to assess who exactly was to blame for the evictions - Irish landlords facing bankruptcy or the British Government in London?
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| 0:57.0 | My name is Finn Duwir and this is an eye for an eye, |
| 1:02.0 | evictions and assassinations, the Great Famine Part 18. |
| 1:09.0 | This podcast opens a new phase in the story of the Great Famine, one that only really began in 1847. |
| 1:17.0 | After two years of starvation and disease, you would be forgiven for thinking Ireland could fall no further. |
| 1:25.0 | However, having survived the hardship of famine and new challenge lay ahead, |
| 1:30.0 | particularly in the west of Ireland, where Landors were preparing to evict tens of thousands of families. |
| 1:37.0 | This provoked one of the bitterest chapters in the entire history of the great famine. |
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