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 Ireland's Lost Generation - The Orphans of the Great Hunger

Ireland's Lost Generation - The Orphans of the Great Hunger

Irish History Podcast · Fin Dwyer

March 20, 202428m 25s

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In 1851 there were nearly 90,000 orphans in Irish Workhouses. Many of these children had lost their parents to hunger and disease. Others had been abandoned. This podcast explores the lives of these resilient children as they turned into young adults and rebelled against a world that had forsaken them...

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