Friend or Foe: The Impact of the Potato on Irish History
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2014
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The potato is synonymous with the biggest disaster in Irish history – the Great Famine of the 1840s. However this is only part of the story of the potato in Irish history. The arrival of the potato in Ireland transformed the island and resulted in changes in how people lived their lives. In the podcast I examine the good, the bad and the ugly of the potato's fascinating and chequered relationship with Ireland.
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| 1:07.0 | and welcome to the Irish history podcast. My name is Finn Duwire and this is friend or foe, the impact of the potato on Irish history. |
| 1:10.0 | Ireland doesn't have a national vegetable, but there is unquestionably one which is inextricably |
| 1:17.2 | linked with Irish identity and history. This is of course the potato. |
| 1:23.0 | Ireland even today consumes one of the highest amounts of potatoes in the world, |
| 1:28.0 | but we have a checkered history with our favourite vegetable. |
| 1:31.0 | The potato is synonymous with the greatest disaster in Irish. The side and another million emigrated. |
| 1:43.2 | One of the contributing factors to this famine was the collapse of the potato crop. |
| 1:48.8 | However, this is only one small part of the story of the potato in Ireland. Indeed its introduction resulted |
| 1:56.0 | in changes in how people live their lives, what the very landscape that surrounded them |
| 2:01.0 | looked like and as we shall see even led to a change in Irish |
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