The Great Hunger: 1M dead, 2M fled, & Fenians invading Canada for Ireland is where it led. The Great Hunger, or the potato famine, devastated Ireland, causing 1 million deaths and driving two million ...

Examine the events that led to the Irish famine, setting a crisis into motion in Europe. Examine the social, political and economic conditions that allowed the Irish famine to occur, setting a crisis ...

In the 1840s, a catastrophic famine brought about the decimation of Ireland’s poor and the exodus of millions from the island. This major, ground-breaking documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson, ...