When Ireland Starved

The Exodus (1x4)

Uitzenddatum: Apr 15, 1992

Last in a four part series tracing the sequence of events that became known as the Great Irish Famine. “If crosses and tombs could be erected on the water, the whole route of the emigrant vessels from Europe to America would long since have assumed the appearance of a crowded cemetery”. So wrote an American emigration official in the middle of the 19th century. Emigration wasn’t an escape from death and destitution for everyone.