Ciarán Ó Murchadha

Dr Ciarán Ó Murchadha is an independent scholar, a leading historian of the Great Famine, and author of the internationally acclaimed The Great Famine- Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 (London, 2011).

Irish emigrants sailing to the US, Illustrated London News, 6th July 1850. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The panicked flood: emigration and the Great Famine

It was the exodus that changed Ireland - and the world - forever. Ciarán Ó Murchadha tells the story of how Ireland's desperate population left …

History • 11 Dec 20

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