'An tOcras Mór' The Great Hunger.
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A short film about emigration from Ireland
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due to the potato famine. The film is set to The Pogues song - Thousands are sailing
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patricia donohue says...
good film but it was't just a famine, it was a genocide. there was food but the english made sure it was shipped to england under armed english soldiers.it's a shame the true story is never told.
This is very true indeed Patricia...which is why we are here. To bring the truth to light. The powers that be continue to downplay the epoch as merely an act of God in far too many ways and places, but there were far more sinister gears in motion throughout that are often left out of the piucture. Thanks for your comment!
Sandy T.
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patricia donohue
2:21 AM on October 17, 2010
good film but it was't just a famine, it was a genocide. there was food but the english made sure it was shipped to england under armed english soldiers.it's a shame the true story is never told.
There is one incorrect point here, that the crop they depended upon to pay rents was destroyed...those potato crops were primarily for self consumption because they could be grown on a small parcel of land. It was everything else they raised and grew that payed the rents.
But other than that, it is pretty well done.
But other than that, it is pretty well done.
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