When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine (1992)

Season 1 Episode 4

The Exodus

0.04 / Apr / 1992•27m

“If crosses and tombs could be erected on the water, the whole route of the emigrant vessels from Europe to America would long since have assumed the appearance of a crowded cemetery” So wrote an American emigration official in the middle of the 19th Century. Emigration wasn’t an escape from death and destruction for everyone.