Name: The Famine Road
Uploaded: 2023-05-18T09:07:23+00:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: Narrated by Jim O'Connor These famine roads were the result of the forced labor of the Irish peasantry, who, under the strictures of the Poor Law and the reigning laissez-faire economic theory of the

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Narrated by Jim O'Connor

These famine roads were the result of the forced labor of the Irish peasantry, who, under the strictures of the Poor Law and the reigning laissez-faire economic theory of the day, were made to work in exchange for food during the Great Famine.

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