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12 July 2016

Musical Post: The Fields Of Athenry

Between 1845 and 1852, there were mass starvation and disease in Ireland, The Great Hunger, which killed about a million people, while a million other emigrated out of the island. So great was the effect of the event, it changed political landscape of the time and considered as one of the background factor for the independence of the Republic of Ireland about half a century later.

The cause of the famine can be traced to years back, it was revolving around agriculture and land problems in Ireland as part of United Kingdom's territory.

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