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Hi, my name's Paloma Faith and this is my new show.

One, two, three, four!

I'm really mad, sad and bad.

I've been called mad and bad my whole life.

I've also had some real moments of sad, so I decided to make a podcast.

This series, I'll be speaking to my favourite actors, comedians, musicians and thinkers to find out what makes them mad, sad and bad. Out now.

This is like free therapy for you, wouldn't it?

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Irish people are renowned storytellers, are so we like to think. It does certainly shape the

way we explore our history, though. We love to share the past by recounting stories of previous

generations, like many families can vividly tell you what their ancestors did during the Irish

Revolution. However, this method of engaging with their past doesn't work quite so well when it comes to the Great Famine.

The stories we do tell are often impersonal and focus on events rather than people.

Themes like death, eviction and emigration come up again and again,

but often there's very little detail that talks about a specific person.

Now there are many reasons for this.

Firstly, the sheer scale of the great hunger simply doesn't lend itself well to storytelling.

There is a degree of truth in the famous words supposedly uttered by Stalin.

If only one man dies of hunger, that is a tragedy. If millions die, that's only statistics.

However, I think an even greater reason is that the stories from the Great Hunger reveal

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