Product Details

• Producers: Radharc Films
• Format: NTSC
• Language: English
• Studio: Celtic Video, Inc.
• ASIN: B001370NU6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #391,074 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

When the "Great Famine" struck the nation of Ireland in the middle of the last century, unlike the rest of Europe, its nine million people, still caught in the grip of colonial structures, lay impoverished and acutely vulnerable to the unfolding catastrophe. Three and a half million people died of hunger or fled on the infamous "Coffin Ships" as starvation stalked the land. The cruel irony is that Ireland had an abundance of food sufficient to feed sixteen million people, twice its population. But these foodstuffs were continuously shipped out of Ireland under military protection for the cities of England. "When Ireland Starved" exposes, comprehensively and graphically, this British orchestrated disaster that has been for too long hidden from the public eye.