This episode continues the story of emigration and Irish Coffin Ships during the Great Famine. Dr Cian T. McMahon, the author of The Coffin Ship - Life and Death at Sea during the Great Famine discusses

• The death rate onboard coffin ships
• What factors determined whether someone lived or died.
• How Irish Famine emigrants adjusted to life in the U.S.

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