Hello everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History. Now, we could go, we had Charles Riedon talking

about the great Irish famine. He is an economic historian at Cambridge University. And we had him

on because this month marks 175th anniversary since the blight, the potato blight was first identified

that would do such terrible harm to our under its population. On this podcast, we've got a counterpoint.

We've got someone who disagrees. We've got Christine Cannelli on the podcast. She's a wonderful

historian, author, and she's the founding director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac

University in Connecticut. She painted a different picture of the famine itself and Britain's response.

I think it's fascinating to have both points of view from two very distinguished historians

on this anniversary, on an event that would shape British and Irish history for generations.

Arguably still shapes its politics to the present day. If you want to listen to these podcasts,

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everyone, enjoy Christine Cannelli.

Christine, thank you very much for coming on this podcast.

I'm delighted to be here. I'm a great fan.

Well, I'm a great fan of yours. Now, we've heard from an economic historian about the British

government's attempts and then failure, of course, to provide humanitarian relief over the course

of the Great Famine. I'd like to talk to you just a bit more about that famine itself and the

experience. Given it's 175 years since the light was first identified, did the harvest fail

immediately or was it a slower process? It's a slower process and one of the things about the famine

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