Did the Irish Government Cover Up Mass Starvation in 1920s?
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2014
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In the Spring of 1925 newspapers around the world carried stories that a famine had broken out in Ireland. The Manchester Guardian reported 750,000 people were at risk, a figure repeated by the Soviet Union's daily Pravda. However there is no mention of this "famine" in Irish history books so in I went to the National Archives in search of evidence. What I found was tragic details of yet another cover up. Listen to the show to find out what I discovered.
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| 0:37.0 | Some shows may have ads. Hello and this is did the Irish Government cover up a famine in 1925? |
| 0:57.4 | This podcast is about a tragic but forgotten chapter in Ireland's history. |
| 1:01.6 | It's based on research I carried out earlier this year, which reveals |
| 1:06.1 | the appalling deprivation that many of our ancestors lived in during the early years of Irish |
| 1:11.9 | independence, and then tragically evidence of yet another cruel |
| 1:16.2 | cover-up by the authorities of the day. |
| 1:19.0 | If you want to read the text of this podcast along with the references used you can find them at Irish |
| 1:25.2 | history podcast. i.e now to the year 1925 to begin I'm going to look at a crisis that embroiled Ireland in |
| 1:35.0 | 1924 and 1925, and then the economic depression were taking their toll on society. |
| 1:55.4 | An internal government memo of November 1924 painted a grim picture. |
| 2:01.1 | In industrial and commercial occupations, some 47,000 are unemployed. |
| 2:05.8 | In agriculture, probably 40,000. Businesses languishing, bank deposits are diminishing, |
| 2:11.4 | the national trade balance is adverse. |
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