Was The Great Famine a Genocide? | The Great Famine XXXIII
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This subject needs little by way of an introduction. It is one of the most controversial debates in Irish history. It continues to overshadow relations with our nearest neighbour - Great Britain.
In the 1840s one million Irish people died and another million famine refugees fled the island. The Irish population fell by 25% in less than a decade.
Over the past 25 years calls for the Great Famine to be defined as a genocide have gained in popularity. In this podcast I tackle the issue head on answering whether British government policy and their actions in Ireland in the 1840s were genocidal.
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| 1:26.0 | welcome to the Irish history podcast. |
| 1:29.0 | My name is Finn Duwier and this is |
| 1:32.0 | Was the Great Famine a genocide. This topic doesn't |
| 1:37.3 | need much by way of an introduction other than to say I'll be getting into all the key |
| 1:42.3 | issues looking at how many people died during the great hunger. |
| 1:45.8 | Why was food exported in the middle of a famine and did the actions of the British government constitute a genocide. |
| 1:54.0 | I know many of you feel very passionately about both sides of the argument, |
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