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discount code sale 30. Recently an online portal has been opened between New York and Dublin.

It consists of two large circular screens, one located on 5th Avenue in New York,

the other on North Earl Street in Dublin.

The screen in Dublin broadcasts a live feed from New York, while New Yorkers can watch the

screen on Fifth Avenue and see Dubliners go about their daily business.

While this obviously requires 21st century innovation and technology,

it is actually just the latest connection between two cities whose history has been inextricably linked since

the 1840s if not before.

While Irish people had been migrating to New York for centuries. During and after the Great Hunger,

Irish immigrants would transform Manhattan. Within the space of a few years

following the Great Hunger, a quarter of a million Irish

people would make New York their home, becoming the largest community in the

city. These people are, in our minds eye at least synonymous with starvation, coffin ships and

misery. However, groundbreaking new research challenges or at least deepens our understanding of these people.

While poverty was central to one part of their lives, their experience in New York

was probably very different than you imagine.

In this episode, Historian, Tyler Ann Binder, a professor at George Washington University

and a previous guest on the show returns to share his new research on the experience of the famine Irish in New York.

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