The 1846 Summer of Starvation | The Great Famine VII

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

Ireland, Irish History, Norman Invasion, Great Hunger, Vikings, Interviews, History, War Of Independence, Great Famine

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The summer of 1846 was a tense time in Ireland. As food grew scarce lawlessness, riots and violence became frequent. Everyone eagerly awaited May 15th when the British Government would open it's emergency food depots. Perhaps then the tensions and anxiety at the heart of Irish society would ease? However would the food in these emergency depots be enough to stave off famine until the harvest was ready in Autumn?

Find out in this episode.

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0:00.0	This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.
0:11.0	So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.
0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply. Check the Uber app.
0:22.4	This podcast is brought to you by the listeners of the Irish History Podcast who have become
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0:37.4	access to lots of great content first of all as a patron you will get access to the show before everyone else.
0:45.0	Patrons also get an episode guide that contains lots of more sources and further reading. The episode guide for this show has links to documents and books produced in the 1840s that are available online.
0:57.0	Patrons also get a monthly Patrons podcast, an exclusive show made only for you, the patrons.
1:04.7	The next patron show is going to look at Charles Trevallion's life.
1:08.9	Many of you might have heard of his name before.
1:11.4	He's an extremely controversial but very influential British civil servant during the famine.
1:17.0	Become a patron today at Patreon.com forward slash Irish podcast and get that show about his life. So that address one last time is
1:26.0	Patreon.com p at re o'n dot com forward slash Irish podcast each week I'm taking time to thank the
1:36.0	listeners who have become patrons without whom this series on the great famine
1:40.1	would not happen this week I want to thank Paul Reynolds, Mark Malone,
1:44.2	Deborah Bowen, J.J. Kirby, Brenner, Evan Wyland, Dervlaqar,
1:48.6	E.C. Markon, Alexander, Mike Ryan and Susan Lucas.
1:53.6	Thanks a million folks, I really appreciate your support.
1:56.6	Hello and this is the
2:05.0	my name is Finn de Weir and this is the 1846 summer of starvation,
2:11.0	the Great Famine Part 7.
2:14.1	With Starvation building since the failure of the potato crop in September 1845, it was increasingly
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