Corn, Gunpowder & Class Conflict | The Famine in Clogheen I | The Great Famine XXIX

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

Ireland, Irish History, Norman Invasion, Great Hunger, Vikings, Interviews, History, War Of Independence, Great Famine

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a return of the Great Famine Series. Focusing on the town of Clogheen in South Tipperary, this two part episode follows the lives of three individuals Robert Davis, David Keane and Richard Burke. Their stories delve into the fascinating yet often violent struggle for survival in Ireland during the Great Famine. While the show focuses on Clogheen the accounts are reflective of wider experiences.

The podcasts also examines controversial topics such as the export of food and the violent resistence to those exports. I also reveal stories of those who profited during the famine and try to answer why many Irish people who seemed like decent people continued to export food in the midst of the famine.

The show includes dozens of primary sources including two previously unpublished letters written from Clogheen and Boston giving a first hand perspective of what life for Irish people was like in the 1840s. I would like to thank Ted Reilly and Martin Nutty for their help in New York without whom this episode would not have been possible.

Credits:

Aidan Crowe read David Keane's Letters

Maurcie Casery narrated Robert Davis's report

Mark O'Dwyer voiced the words of James Fraser and Ferguson the pawnbroker

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0:46.6	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. up. My name is Finn Duwir. This is the first of about eight podcasts that will close out the Great Famine series. We are starting with a two-part episode about the famine in one small to Pereira town, Clahine. By focusing on the lives of just three
1:15.4	individuals over two episodes we are going to delve deep into this one community
1:20.5	to look at some of the controversies that surrounded the great famine.
1:24.3	These include the export of food, the resistance to those exports, and how
1:29.8	what seemed like decent people could act with what was callous indifference when their poor
1:34.5	neighbors were starving to death.
1:37.0	The two parts of this episode will also move the overall story of the famine along and
1:41.2	by the end of part two of this
1:45.0	the famine along and by the end of part two of this show we will have reached the opening month of 1849
1:46.0	and have entered the final phase of the famine.
1:50.0	This episode utilised archives in Dublin and New York and there are a few people I would like to thank, primarily Ted Riley in the New York Historical Archives and Martin Nutty for all the help he provided in New York.
2:02.0	Clauhine has been the focus of much research over the last time. for all the help he provided in New York.
2:02.6	Clauhine has been the focus of much research over the last few decades and I would like to
2:06.4	acknowledge the great work, The Famine in the Valley by Edmund Oreardon, that's available
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