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Desperate: An image of a family home during the Irish famine from 1845 to 1850, in which more than a million people died. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

The British Empire’s impact on Ireland’s Great Hunger

Drew Forrest looks at the role of Victorian laissez-faire in the terrible Irish famine

  • Eyaaz
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(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

A tale of two risings: Ireland and South Africa

There are marked parallels between the two countries’ liberation wars

  • Eyaaz
8 min read