SYMHC Classics: Irish Famine, Part 2

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The second episode in our revisit of the Irish Famine covers the mid-1800s, when the poorest people in Ireland ate almost nothing but potatoes, saving other crops for selling. So a blight, plus politics, led to tragedy.

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0:33.2	Happy Saturday, everybody.
0:35.0	Today we have the second part of our two-parter on the Great Famine
0:38.3	that struck Ireland starting in 1845.
0:41.7	This famine grew out of ongoing persecution and subjugation of Irish people,
0:45.7	particularly Irish Catholics, which we talk more about in part one.
0:50.1	This episode originally came out on June 19, 2013.
0:54.5	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of iHeartRadio.
1:07.4	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
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