To mark the 175th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Irish Famine, a major two-part documentary based on University College Cork’s Atlas of the Great Irish Famine has been created in partnership with RTÉ.
In conjunction with the broadcast of The Hunger, a website on the Great Irish Famine has been launched as a major new online source of information about the historical event, including fascinating contributions with new research by the leading scholars in the area.
Here, Dr Helene O’Keeffe, historian and lecturer at UCC’s School of History, shares how The Great Irish Famine Online will offer the documentary audience the opportunity to learn more about the history depicted on film.
