Irish History - The Great Irish Famine - Who's To Blame? [58 minute radio documentary]

This 58 minute radio documentary is named The Great Irish Famine - Who's To Blame? Theme of documentary- The Great Irish Famine was Ireland's greatest disaster. Potato blight repeatedly devastated crops and led to colossal loss of life and mass emigration to Britain, the USA and Australia. This 58 minute radio documentary investigates the most contentious question underlying all debate concerning the Great Irish Famine (1845 to 1850)- namely, who was to blame? Does responsibility for well over a million deaths, and the widespread emigration of over a million impoverished people from Ireland lie solely with the British government, who administered and ruled Ireland at the time, as well as the ruling Irish Landlord class? Or were other factors at play, which might mitigate government and landlord culpability? What about the Irish middle-class and other groupings, were they anyway responsible (even partially)? Ultimately this documentary seeks to try answer these vital questions and by so doing, unravel fact from myth, confront stereotypes which have been perpetuated over the last two centuries, and ultimately show that who's to blame for the Great Irish Famine is more complex than past generations of Irish people were led to believe. To be downloaded for non-profit purposes only, in adherence with the universal truth- “What you do for yourself dies with you, what you do for others remains. It is immortal.”