History vs Reality. What Was Life Really Like in 1840s Ireland?
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Many travellers who visited the west of Ireland in the 19th century considered it as a frontier of sorts. They were more often than not deeply racist, yet we still rely heavily on their accounts to reconstruct a picture of life at the time. In this show I question how reliable their accounts are. In an effort to create a more vivid picture of life in the 1840s I have interviewed with two archaeologists - Franc Myles and Eve Campbell for this show.
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