The Irish famine: everything you wanted to know

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🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Christine Kinealy answers listener questions on the devastating famine that struck Ireland in the mid-19th century Christine Kinealy answers listener questions on the causes and consequences of the devastating famine that struck Ireland in the mid-19th century. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, she also discusses whether we should call it a “famine”, the role of aid and migration in the crisis, and if the British government can be blamed for what happened. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.
0:05.0	A bit of a different thing going on this week.
0:07.3	You've been immature and you've lied.
0:10.3	And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.
0:13.9	I was trying to manipulate you.
0:15.7	Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.
0:18.1	I know, I'd be like, are you joking?
0:20.6	I don't know.
0:21.7	I guess you'd have to ask.
0:23.5	Someone that has sex.
0:24.2	Someone that has sex.
0:26.3	And remember, it's just between us.
0:47.1	Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.
1:02.7	I'm Ellie Corthororn. In 1845, Ireland's potato crop failed. And over the following years,
1:07.6	this blight would return with devastating consequences for the country and its people.
1:12.5	On today's Everything You Wanted to Know episode, we're speaking about the Irish Famine. I was joined by the historian Professor Christine Caneli, who answered your questions
1:18.5	on the famine's causes, consequences and long-term legacy. So thank you so much for joining me today.
1:25.6	We've had a lot of questions in from social media.
1:27.8	We've had them in from Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. And we've also got some of the things
1:32.8	that people search for most on internet search engines all about the Irish famine. So to start us
1:39.8	off with the very basics, let's go with one of the most searched for terms. Unsurprisingly,
1:45.8	it's what was the Irish famine? Okay, so that's a great question, and it's a complicated
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