Exiles - Irish Famine Emigrants | The Great Famine XIX)

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 March 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Emigration is arguably the greatest legacy of the Great Irish Famine. Between 1846 and 1851, 1.25 million Irish people passed through the port of Liverpool alone to escape the Great Hunger. This exodus of refugees transformed the Great Famine from an Irish catastrophe into a global phenomenon as these people established Irish communities across the world. It fitting then that the show opens with a story from the Canadian city of Montreal in the 1870s. The we will hone in on the port of Liverpool which provides us an overall picture of what was happening. Then to conclude I look at profiles of Irish famine emigrants. Who were these people? How did they manage to escape Ireland? I also debunk some common myths along the way.

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1:08.0	Exiles, Irish famine emigrants. This is the first episode of what will be three or four
1:14.6	podcasts which look at what is probably the greatest legacy of the great Irish
1:19.8	famine that is immigration. Between 1845 and 1851, well over 1 million Irish people left this
1:29.9	island desperate to escape the great hunger. This exodus of refugees transformed the great
1:36.2	famine from an Irish crisis into a global phenomenon. So it's fitting that this episode opens with a story from the city of Montreal in the
1:46.3	1870s. After this we will look at the sheer scale of the flight from hunger which took place during the great famine by focusing
1:55.3	in on the story of the English port of Liverpool.
1:59.9	Then to conclude I'm going to look at some individual Irish emigrants, people you'll never have heard of
2:05.1	before, but who will help us understand how people escaped Ireland in the late 1840s, who
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