Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Irish History Podcast
Episode: Exiles - Irish Famine Emigrants | The Great Famine XIX)
Description: Emigration is arguably the greatest legacy of the Great Irish Famine. Between 1846 and 1851, 1.25 million Irish people passed through the port of Liverpool alone to escape the Great Hunger. This exodus of refugees transformed the Great Famine from an Irish catastrophe into a global phenomenon as these people established Irish communities across the world. It fitting then that the show opens with a story from the Canadian city of Montreal in the 1870s. The we will hone in on the port of Liverpool which provides us an overall picture of what was happening. Then to conclude I look at profiles of...