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E01: Blight
In the first of two programmes marking the 150th anniversary of the start of the famine, Dublin-born writer Ian Gibson tells the story of the tragedy and explor
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The Great Famine
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In September 1845, a devastating new plant disease swept across Ireland, destroying the potato crops on which the majority of the people depended. Aid from the British government was too little and too late. Over the sub…