Rebecca L. Abbott. MFA., Prof. of Communications, Dept. of Film, TV & Media at Quinnipiac U. and Christine Kinealy, Ph.D, founding Dir. of “Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute” at Quinnipiac, will host the documentary film: “Ireland’s Great Hunger and the Irish Diaspora”
Why did over a million people die of starvation and disease, and more than two million leave during roughly six years in mid-1800s Ireland? The label "potato famine" does not