The Real Reason a Million Irish People Starved Was Never the Potato What They Never Taught You

In December 1846, a Cork magistrate pushed open a cabin door in Skibbereen and found six people so starved he took them for corpses. That same winter, ships were leaving Irish harbours loaded with oats, calves, pork and butter. The same potato blight hit Belgium, the Netherlands and the Scottish Highlands, but only Ireland lost about a million people. So why did a million Irish people really die in the Great Famine? This documentary follows the real reasons behind Ireland's Great Famine of 1845 to 1852, An Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger. The land and tenancy system and the...