The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine (06/03/2020)

Production : RTÉ, Create One, ARTE, Tyrone Productions, UCC

Synopsis

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.