Everyone has heard of the Great Potato Famine of the 1840's when around 10% of the Irish population died from starvation and disease. This however was not the worst famine in Irish history. A century earlier in the 1740s the island was ravaged by an event known as the year of slaughter when as much as 20% of the population succumbed to famine and related diseases. This podcast tells the story of a bizarre year of weather, crop failures and what was unbelievable indifference among the rich of 18t...
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