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This episode marks a return to the Great Famine Series. Coming podcasts will detail the later phase
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The last podcast looked at the arrival of the one time Nazi Commando Otto Skorzeny in Ireland in 195
This is the first of two podcasts which looks at the story of Otto Skorzeny, a notorious Nazi with a
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Over the coming weeks I am taking a break from the Great Famine Series to make a mini series entitle
The crumbling ruins of workhouses are one of the last visible reminders of the horrors of the Great
This show opens with the fascinating story of communities in Mayo who resorted to piracy to survive
This podcast continues our journey through the summer of 1847 as we reach one of the pivotal moments
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From January 1847 Irish people desperately trying to flee the famine began to leave the island in hu
This series continues the story of the Great Famine into the notorious year of Black '47 by returnin
As the situation deteriorated in Ireland in late 1846, the two Cork towns of Youghal and Skibbereen
Many travellers who visited the west of Ireland in the 19th century considered it as a frontier of s
Join Fin as he treks around Achill island visiting Ireland's newest beach and the ruins of a famine
Through the summer of 1846 Ireland had endured terrible hunger and suffering. However against the od
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