Christine Kinealy
Historian and founding director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University, specializing in the history of the Irish Famine and British–Irish relations.
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Feb 9, 2026 • 40min
The Great Famine
Christine Kinealy, historian and founding director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute, guides listeners through Ireland's colonial vulnerability and why the potato became essential. She traces the blight's biology, examines British policy choices and public works, and recounts emigration, coffin ships and the long political and demographic aftermath.
