The Great Famine

In September 1845, a devastating new plant disease swept across Ireland, destroying the potato crops on which the majority of the people depended. Aid from the British government was too little and too late. Over the subsequent six years, a million Irish people died of starvation and a more than a million others fled abroad in order to escape the ravages of hunger and disease.

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First Aired

Sep 4, 1995

Last Aired

Sep 11, 1995

Episode Runtime

49m

Network

BBC Two

Country

GB