{"id":6714,"date":"2021-11-28T13:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T12:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=193475"},"modified":"2021-11-28T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T13:11:08","slug":"the-irish-famine-everything-you-wanted-to-know","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/the-irish-famine-everything-you-wanted-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irish famine: everything you wanted to know\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Sunday, 28 November 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Christine Kinealy answers listener questions on the causes and consequences of the devastating famine that struck Ireland in the mid-19th century. 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