Famine To Freedom/The Great Irish Potato Famine DVD Added To Irishshopper.Com

Jan. 6, 2012 - PRLog -- Famine To Freedom - The Great Irish Potato Famine Dvd

A Story Of Suffering And Sacrifice

During the years known as "the great hunger", half a million families in rural Ireland were forcibly evicted from their homes. The devastation and the loss of family members was just about unparalleled. The force behind this disaster was a deadly biological agent, a pathogen so strong that it had the power to take out the potato crop of a whole country in just one month.

The Great Irish Potato Famine of 1845 - 1851 saw an estimated 1.2 million people die of starvation and disease and another 1.5 million emigrate to other countries such as Canada an the United States, which proved another hardship in its own right. Indeed the conditions on the ships were so harsh many didn't make it across the Atlantic alive.

The Irish Potato Famine was a moment in time that changed the face of the old world forever. Today, archaeologists uncover this hidden story, a fragment of forgotten horror, a relic from a catastrophe that left over a million dead.

Running Time : 50 mins approx.

Supplied in a plastic dvd case with full color outer description front and back.

Copies can be purchased from http://www.irishshopper.com

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