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The Great Hunger

(2021)
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A young peasant woman and her family are caught in the mangle of the Famine and its accompanying fevers, is torn between a peasant lover, a rural, impulsive rebel, and the articulate gentleman young Irelander Thomas Francis Meagher whom she has enchanted.

Bewildered and distracted by conflicting loves, she endures every phase of the Famine, and is at the one time the beauty and the crone that symbolises Famine Ireland.



Genre: Historical

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