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Managing the Famine

Third in a four part series tracing the events that became known as The Great Famine. John Mitchell claimed that during all the Famine years, Ireland actually produced sufficient food, wool, and flax to feed and clothe not nine but eighteen million people. Was the Irish famine the result of mismanagement?

English
  • Originally Aired April 8, 1992
  • Runtime 30 minutes
  • Network RTÉ One
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