Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

Niamh Gallagher

University Lecturer in Modern British and Irish History at the University of Cambridge

1 episode

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  1. The Great Irish Famine

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why so many were vulnerable to the failure of the potato crops in Ireland in the 1840s, what relief was given and why so many died or left.

    4 April 2019

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    Also featuring: Cormac O'Grada, Enda Delaney