TV Show Details
Air Date:September 4th, 1995
Last Air Date:September 11th, 1995
Network:BBC Two
Status:Ended
Genres:Documentary
Original Language:English
The Great Famine (1995)
TV ShowBBC Two
Miniseries
StarringIan Gibson
Plot
In September 1845, a devastating new plant disease swept across Ireland, destroying the potato crops on which the majority of the people depended. Aid from the British government was too little and too late. Over the subsequent six years, a million Irish people died of starvation and a more than a million others fled abroad in order to escape the ravages of hunger and disease.