Winners & Losers - How the Great Hunger Ended
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
'Winners & Losers' looks at the how the Great Famine came to an end. It's set to the backdrop of a News Year's Eve Ball held in Kilkenny Castle on December 31st 1850. The castle was home to the Marquis & Marchioness of Ormonde, who had invited what was considered the elite of Kilkenny to the ball.
However behind the finery and wealth on display we will see how the Great Famine continued to affect life in Ireland into the 1850s.
From guests at the ball to the impoverished weavers of Kilkenny, it would be several years before the Great Hunger truly came to an end.
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| 1:01.1 | winners and losers how the great hunger ended. I'm going to get |
| 1:05.8 | straight into this one folks I think the title spells out where we're going but |
| 1:09.8 | you'll be spending the next 30 minutes in one of Ireland's great stately homes at a New Year's |
| 1:14.9 | eve ball in 1850 where we're going to get a unique insight into how the famine ended very |
| 1:20.8 | differently for different people. This will bring us stories of extreme |
| 1:25.0 | wealth and generosity as well as greed and evictions. This is the second-last |
| 1:29.9 | show in the Great Famine series but I already have another series in the making called Partisans. |
| 1:35.9 | There's going to be more on that later in the show, but now let's start this episode. In spite of the great famine, for some at least the approach of Christmas 1850 and the social occasions that accompanied it was something to look forward to. |
| 1:55.2 | In Kenny, the event of the season was unquestionably the New Year's Eve Bowl being held |
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