Ep.101 The Irish Go West: Famine, Coffin Ships, and Li Hongzhang
Topics for this episode: The Irish characteristics in the US Presidency and the Boston Celtics basketball team A cultural motif: Going to North America People on the move: The wave of immigration during the Great Famine "Ireland provided Britain with barley, wheat, alcohol, and soldiers" The ten years the Empire on which the sun never sets turned a blind eye to famine within its borders