The Great Hunger in Dublin | The Great Famine XII

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

🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dublin is often forgotten in the story of the Great Famine. While death rates in the capital were not as severe as the west of Ireland, the city suffered nevertheless. The show follows the story of the Mulherins, a family who fled famine in their home in Co Leitrim and settled in the Smithfield - Stoneybatter area of Dublin. They quickly found life in the capital city was very different but not necessarily easier...

The show also looks at life in one of the city workhouses and how prostitution increased dramatically during the late 1840s.

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1:00.0	My name is Finn dewire and this is The Great Hunger in Dublin,
1:06.7	The Great Famine Part 12. This is the first of two episodes which will look at the story of the famine in Ireland's capital city, Dublin.
1:15.2	This episode is a bit late I was in hospital last week and I took a while to get over it but things are back on track now.
1:22.4	Overall Dublin does not feature heavily
1:25.4	in histories of the great famine and there's comparatively little written on the
1:29.4	city during the 1840s in comparison to the west of Ireland. On one level this makes sense.
1:36.0	The signature mark that spelled the onset of famine elsewhere, the failure of the potato
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