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I'm going to the Irish History Podcast.

My name is Finn de Wire and this is Black 47, a world turned upside down.

As the title suggests, this episode follows the story of the Great Famine into the year known

as Black 47, the worst year of the Great Hunger.

To garner insights into what was happening, we will return to the town of Skibereen and

County Cork and look at events there which became internationally famous even attracting visitors

from across the world. However, while we will see death rates increasing in West Cork. The famine was also warping pretty much every aspect of

Irish society. By Christmas 1846, Ireland had more or less ceased to function with anymodicum of normality. It was now a world

turned upside down. Some people at least began to do things previously unimaginable.

This included brutal crimes as starving people needed to survive.

To illustrate the depth of this transformation in society,

the episode starts in a county not yet featured in the series,

county awfully, known as Kings County in the 1840s.

We begin by looking at a man largely forgotten by history, the county coroner James

Dylan and two brutal killings he had to investigate in December, 1846.

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