When Ireland Starved: An Gorta Mór, The Great Famine - Season 1 Episode 4 The Exodus
Overview: “If crosses and tombs could be erected on the water, the whole route of the emigrant vessels from Europe to America would long since have assumed the appearance of a crowded cemetery” So wrote an American emigration official in the middle of the 19th Century. Emigration wasn’t an escape from death and destruction for everyone.