St Patricks Day in Black '47 | The Great Famine XX
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2018
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
As people across the world prepare to mark St Patrick's day this podcast looks what at happened on St Patricks Day during the worst year of the Great Famine. Celebrations were not cancelled but on a day supposed to celebrat all things Irish, events in Dublin revealed there were two very different Irelands in that year.
While one half of the city starved the other half planned a party....
As people across the world mark St Patrick's day this podcast looks what at happened in Dublin on St Patricks Day during the worst year of the Great Famine. Celebrations were not cancelled but on a day supposed to celebrate all things Irish, events in Dublin revealed there were two very different Irelands in that year.
While one half of the city starved the other half planned a party....
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| 0:47.0 | Hello and |
| 0:55.0 | this is St. Patrick's Day in Black 47. |
| 0:58.0 | This is St Patrick's Day in Black 47. |
| 1:02.0 | This podcast looks at St. Patrick's Day in Dublin during one of the worst years |
| 1:07.4 | of the great hunger, that is 1847 or as it's simply known in Irish history, Black 47. |
| 1:15.0 | I've been able to glean a huge amount of information about what happened in the city |
| 1:20.0 | on what is one of the most infamous St Patrick's days. |
| 1:23.0 | In this intriguing story we will see that Dublin was a sharply divided city in 1847 |
| 1:29.0 | with the rich and poor living worlds apart. |
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