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The Great Hunger

Cecil Woodham-Smith

THE GREAT HUNGER is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history; the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. In only five years one million people died of starvation, and emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada. The majority of the emigrant ships were small, ill-e...

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Behind the Bastards

It was mentioned as a book written by a British historian that was critical of the Irish famine. A passage was read from it about the Irish being conquered and subjugated.

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The land system thus introduced was a method of government, a badge of conquest and a means of holding and subjection of the people.

— Episode: Part One: That Time Britain Did A Genoci...

Episode: Part One: That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Irel...

It was mentioned as a book written by a British historian that was critical of the Irish famine. A passage was read from it about the Irish being conquered and subjugated.

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The land system thus introduced was a method of government, a badge of conquest and a means of holding and subjection of the people.

Ireland was a conquered country, the Irish peasant a dispossessed man and his landlord an alien conqueror.

Episode: Part One: That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Irel...

It was mentioned in the podcast, with an excerpt read from the book, which detailed the land system implemented by the English in Ireland and how it was a method of conquest and subjugation, leading to the dispossession of Irish peasantry.

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The land system thus introduced was a method of government, a badge of conquest and a means of holding and subjection of the people.

Empire: World History

Anita recalled seeing the book "The Great Hunger" from 1847 while growing up, noting it as an early exposure to Irish famine history.

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It was in The Great Hunger, the- 1847. 1847.

— Episode: 231. Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Eli...

Episode: 231. Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I,...

Anita recalled seeing the book "The Great Hunger" from 1847 while growing up, noting it as an early exposure to Irish famine history.

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It was in The Great Hunger, the- 1847. 1847.

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