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If you're the type of person who normally skips through to the start of podcasts,

you might want to wait around for this announcement about a series of podcasts that I'm going

to be making this week.

Through the series so far, I have tried to bring the 1840s to life,

and this week I'm taking that a step further.

I'm packing up my laptop, microphone and camera and heading to Akel Island off the coast of County Mayo.

Akel is a really spectacular place. It faces out onto 3,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean.

On Ackle, the 1840s is closer to the surface than in most parts of Ireland.

The abandoned village of Schlieve Moore gives you a sense of what life was like, even if it is eerily

strange in its silence.

Right now a team of archaeologists led by Dr. Eve Campbell from the Akel Archaeological Field School are excavating another famine village at Kiel and their discoveries are giving us unique insights into life during the famine bringing these ruins to life.

While on Ackle I will be making videos, short podcasts and doing interviews with the archaeologists.

This once-off content will start being available on Patreon from Wednesday.

If you're thinking of becoming a patron of this series, now is the time to do it.

You'll get tons of bonus content this week alone so you won't want to miss out.

You can sign up today at patreon.com forward slash Irish podcast.

That's patreon p, P-A-T-R-E-O-N dot com forward slash Irish podcast and join me on what would be an incredible

journey to the 1840s. Each week I take time to thank patrons who are the people

that keeps this show on the road and allow me to make content like this. So this week

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