The Irish Holocaust
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🗓️ 17 March 2021
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Summary
The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mór [anˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), also known as the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Famine (mostly within Ireland) or the Irish Potato Famine (mostly outside Ireland),[1][2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852.[3] With the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was dominant, the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as An Drochshaol,[4] loosely translated as "the hard times" (or literally "the bad life"). The worst year of the period was 1847, known as "Black '47".[5][6] During the Great Hunger, about 1 million people died and more than a million fled the country,[7] causing the country's population to fall by 20%–25%, in some towns falling as much as 67% between 1841 and 1851.[8][9][10] Between 1845 and 1855, no less than 2.1 million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also steamboats and barks—one of the greatest mass exoduses from a single island in history.[11][12]
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, but what's it even gonna be? I don't know man winter soldier Balkan stuff they'll fight bad guys like punch them and stuff |
| 0:08.4 | I don't know they don't even have powers though. They're just |
| 0:12.9 | Bucky as a metal arm and |
| 0:16.1 | PTSD |
| 0:17.9 | Oh, no, yeah, that's a great power. Cecilia Stan corrected. Okay, stop it seriously stop it |
| 0:26.5 | But it's against the rules |
| 0:29.8 | There it is there it is heath what's Eli doing? Why is he painted green? Why is the studio covered in glasses of water? |
| 0:37.7 | What I don't even know all great questions so this week's episode is about the Irish potato famine and |
| 0:43.7 | Eli's being very insensitive about it |
| 0:45.7 | Uh Eli what did we say about mocking heath's heritage exactly? Oh |
| 0:50.5 | Warden that I could stop good sir |
| 0:53.0 | For I am dying of thirst and I wish I could have something to drink |
| 0:59.4 | Water famine to be not even historically accurate |
| 1:05.4 | What come close I must tell you so much |
| 1:09.1 | Tell everyone forever that this was the British's fault |
| 1:17.7 | Gonna be one of those episodes huh yep |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah, I'll go clean out the inbox |
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| 1:57.9 | You know it's a toy to toy |
| 2:02.4 | There you go great and with that out of the way |
| 2:07.5 | At least until Eli speaks next yes, I'll introduce the panel first up |
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