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Podcast: Irish History Podcast
Episode: Voices from Black '47 - Irish Emigrants in Their Own Words | The Great Famine XI
Description: 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 Ireland in 1845 had emigrated. While we know a lot about where they went and the horrendous conditions they faced, we know less about the lives they left behind. This show tells that story through the words of these Irish emigrants.Research for this show took me into the archives of the National Library of Ireland. After sifting through what hundreds o...