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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. Read More

Watch The Great Famine online. Featuring Ian Gibson, The Great Famine has 1 seasons and 2 episodes in total. It is available for streaming online in the UK It is classified as Documentary genre series and the average rating across the web is 0. The TV series was first aired on 1995. Read Less