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Apr 2022
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Part One: That Time Britain Did A Genoci...

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Robert is joined by Prop to discuss the bastards of the Great Hunger.

FOOTNOTES:

  1. https://www.rte.ie/history/the-great-irish-famine/2020/0902/1162846-the-truth-about-trevelyan/
  2. https://scalar.usc.edu/works/star-of-the-sea-a-postcolonialpostmodern-voyage-into-the-irish-famine/charles-trevelyan

  3. https://archive.ph/njzu5#selection-3517.0-3537.162

  4. https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Farts-entertainment%2Fhistorical-notes-god-and-england-made-the-irish-famine-1188828.html

  5. https://www.thoughtco.com/great-irish-famine-1773826

  6. https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1653&context=mulr

  7. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ehr.12274

  8. https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/queen-victoria-irish-famine

  9. Coogan, Tim Pat. The Famine Plot (pp. 83-84). St. Martin's Publishing Group

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