Famine Echoes - an RTÉ series - essential listening

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Famine Echoes - an RTÉ series - essential listening

Post by Paddy Casey » Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:21 pm

Those who are interested in the histories of their Clare families rather than the purely genealogical aspects must listen to the RTÉ broadcast series entitled Famine Echoes at http://www.rte.ie/radio1/famineechoes/1115374.html

The accounts are very moving and help one understand the struggle for survival which so occupied the minds of our ancestors in the 19th century. Figuratively speaking, they shake us by the scruffs of our necks and put many of our modern-day trials and tribulations into perspective.

My thanks to Peter Beirne of the Local Studies Centre at the Clare County Library in Ennis for calling this valuable broadcast series to my attention.

Paddy

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