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The Great Famine's First Blow: The 1740 Ice Famine
Before the potato blight of the 1840s, a deeper and crueler famine struck Ireland in 1740—a famine born of ice, frost, and a collapse in trade. In this episode, Lucas and Luna unpack the forgotten 'Year of the Slaughter' (Bliain an Áir), a catastrophe that killed more people per capita than the Great Famine, yet vanished from memory. They trace the Arctic weather system that froze rivers in Dublin, ruined harvests, and triggered a typhus-driven wave of death. Lucas explains how the famine exposed the cruel logic of the Penal Laws and land hunger, and how rural communities were…
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