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World Service,08 Nov 1995,28 mins

The Great Irish Famine

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"This was a holocaust by any terms" says Tom McGurk of The Sunday Business Post. "And left a bitterness in the Irish soul." So how does a country commemorate a national disaster? Presented by Malcolm Billings

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