Was the Great Famine a Genocide? [From the Archives]
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Over the next two weeks I will be busy writing and editing an upcoming series called Ireland's Last Aristocrat. In the meantime I have dusted down two episodes I thought you might enjoy diving back into. This podcast was released in 2019. It's one of was the most listened to and generated the most feedback! It asks if the Great Hunger was a genocide.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, before you dive in, just a quick heads up about the Warford launch of my new book |
| 0:04.6 | Alita Legacy, A History of Ireland in 18 Murders. |
| 0:07.6 | It takes place in the book center, on Red Square in Warford at 6.30pm on Friday, September |
| 0:13.6 | 29th. |
| 0:14.6 | The book center is one of my favorite bookshops. |
| 0:17.1 | It's built into an art deco cinema from the 1930s, it alone is reason enough to come |
| 0:21.5 | to the launch. |
| 0:22.5 | But hopefully I'll see you there on Friday the 29th at 6.30pm for the launch of Alita |
| 0:27.8 | Legacy, A History of Ireland in 18 Murders. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast, my name is Finn Dwyer. |
| 0:40.0 | Now over the next two weeks, I'll be pretty busy writing an upcoming series, so I've |
| 0:44.4 | selected two very different episodes from the back catalog that I thought would be interesting |
| 0:49.4 | for you to dive back into. |
| 0:51.6 | At this week, I've selected an episode from 2019. |
| 0:55.8 | It was released towards the end of the Great Famine series, which had been running for |
| 0:59.6 | about two and a half years at this point, and it asks, why is the Great Hunger a Genocide? |
| 1:05.3 | This is one of the most listened to episodes of the show, and without doubt it generated |
| 1:09.8 | the most feedback. |
| 1:11.6 | It is a tricky topic. |
| 1:13.4 | The Great Hunger is a particularly and motive subject for Irish people, the world over, |
| 1:18.4 | and rightly so. |
| 1:19.4 | And in this podcast I ask if the term Genocide adequately explains how one million people |
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