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Ireland: Famine & Emigration


Title:
Ireland: Famine & Emigration

Description:
Facts about life in Ireland in 1840s principally eviction, poverty, famine & emigration (with Irish music)

Author:
MaireMc

Tags:
Emigration, Famine, Ireland, Music, Poverty, Song,

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