Ireland's Last Executioners (Outsiders Part I)
Over the coming weeks I am taking a break from the Great Famine Series to make a mini series entitled 'Outsiders'. These podcasts will focus on people who for one reason or another lived at the periph...
4 Des 201726min
The Workhouse and The Unwanted | The Great Famine XVI
The crumbling ruins of workhouses are one of the last visible reminders of the horrors of the Great Hunger in the Irish landscape. During the Great Famine they became home to the unwanted in Irish soc...
15 Nov 201740min
A Doomed Land? Piracy, Elections and The 1847 Harvest | The Great Famine XV
This show opens with the fascinating story of communities in Mayo who resorted to piracy to survive in 1847. This is only a prelude however before we look at two pivotal events later in the year. Afte...
23 Okt 201734min
At a Crossroads - Salvation or Starvation (1847) | The Great Famine XIV
This podcast continues our journey through the summer of 1847 as we reach one of the pivotal moments in the history of the Great Famine. The British government finally realise a new policy is needed i...
25 Sep 201728min
A Tale of Transportation | The Great Famine XIII
Transportation was a particularity cruel punishment. For centuries those condemned to this fate were shipped to penal colonies on the far side of the globe to serve out their sentences. It has become ...
11 Sep 201728min
The Great Hunger in Dublin | The Great Famine XII
Dublin is often forgotten in the story of the Great Famine. While death rates in the capital were not as severe as the west of Ireland, the city suffered nevertheless. The show follows the story of th...
14 Aug 201730min
Voices from Black '47 - Irish Emigrants in Their Own Words | The Great Famine XI
From January 1847 Irish people desperately trying to flee the famine began to leave the island in huge numbers. 220,000 left in that year alone and by 1853 more than one in six people who had lived in...
24 Jul 201728min
Black '47 - A World Turned Upside Down (1847) | The Great Famine X
This series continues the story of the Great Famine into the notorious year of Black '47 by returning to the town of Skibbereen. Looking at how life in the town changed it details the horrifying lives...
10 Jul 201739min
