Season - Episode
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Season 1 Sep 04, 1995
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1 - 1Blight Sep 04, 1995 -
1 - 2Emigration Sep 11, 1995
Overview
In the second of two programmes, Dublin-born writer Ian Gibson tells how thousands of the Irish poor died on board the "coffin ships" that carried them across the Atlantic to the fever sheds of Quebec and the slums of New York. He explores some of the myths of famine history, finding them to be more complicated than on superficial examination, and explains how the bitter experience of the mass emigration has shaped Irish-American support for nationalist causes, from the Fenians to the Irish Republican Army.
Year 1995
Studio BBC Two
Director
Popularity 0.4371
Language English
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