Ireland's Other Great Famine - The Year of Slaughter of 1740-41
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Everyone has heard of the Great Irish Famine of the 1840's when around 10% of the Irish population died from starvation and disease. This however was not the worst famine in Irish history. A century earlier in the 1740s the island was ravaged by an event known as the year of slaughter when as much as 20% of the population perished.
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| 1:05.0 | this is The Year of Slaughter, Ireland's other great famine. |
| 1:12.0 | The Great Potato Famine of 1845 to 51 is one of the most famous and defining moments in Irish history. |
| 1:22.0 | Around 10% of the Irish population died in these horrific six years, |
| 1:27.0 | while millions emigrated to escape starvation and disease. |
| 1:32.0 | While this famine may be the most well known in Ireland, sadly to say, it is not the worst in our history. |
| 1:39.0 | In 1740, Ireland endured its worst recorded famine, well in the space of 21 months, somewhere |
| 1:46.6 | between 13 and 20 percent of the island's population died. |
| 1:52.0 | This podcast is the story of Ireland's other great and somewhat forgotten in 1848 during the height of the Great |
| 2:09.2 | Paedo famine several speakers took the stage to address a crowd on why Ireland needed its own parliament. |
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