Assassinated: A Story of Vengeance & Murder in the Great Hunger
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It’s a dark evening in early November 1847.
A carriage makes it's way through lawless starving countryside in North Roscommon.
A gun shot rings out, a man falls dead.
A family mourns but a community rejoices.
While the Great Hunger of the 1840s resulted in one million deaths, this one murder encapsulated the stark choices facing that generation of Irish people in a one gripping story. It is retold in this episode.
Assassinated: A Story of Vengeance & Murder in the Great Hunger is the studio recording of chapter 4 of my new book ‘A Lethal Legacy - A History of Ireland in 18 Murders’.
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| 1:01.8 | In 1847, the Roscommon Landlord, |
| 1:05.1 | Captain Dennis Mann, was shot dead a few miles from his home. |
| 1:09.1 | As news of this assassination spread, |
| 1:11.6 | bonfires would illuminate the night sky as the people are. this assassination Now while the great hunger of the 1840s transformed the lives of millions, this killing, |
| 1:26.4 | their murder of Captain Dennis Mann encapsulated the stark choices facing that generation |
| 1:31.6 | of Irish people in one gripping story which is re-told in this |
| 1:35.4 | podcast. Now this episode is actually the studio recording of Chapter 4 of my book |
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