As Ireland starved, help came from an unlikely place. How the Choctaw people came to the aid of strangers on an island thousands of miles away is the subject of our latest “Shoot This Now” podcast, available on Apple or right here:
1847 was the darkest year of the Irish famine, sometimes also called the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. In Gaellic, the native language of Ireland, it’s called “Bliain an Drochshaoil,” which means “hard life,” or “hard times.”
A million people starved. Many more fled Ireland, scattering in desperation across the world.
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Their plight drew little help from England, which treated Ireland essentially as a colony despite the two being legally a single country. But it did catch the attention of an unlikely group of people in the United States, who had suffered their own hard life,...
1847 was the darkest year of the Irish famine, sometimes also called the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. In Gaellic, the native language of Ireland, it’s called “Bliain an Drochshaoil,” which means “hard life,” or “hard times.”
A million people starved. Many more fled Ireland, scattering in desperation across the world.
Also Read: Meet the Twins Who Cheated at the Olympics (Podcast)
Their plight drew little help from England, which treated Ireland essentially as a colony despite the two being legally a single country. But it did catch the attention of an unlikely group of people in the United States, who had suffered their own hard life,...
- 4/12/2019
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
It’s been a contentious Oscars season, which might make this exactly the right moment for Hollywood to film the life story of Angela James. If you don’t know who Angela James is — but do run a film studio that can finance a mid-budget sports dramedy with potential crossover appeal to everyone on earth — stop whining about your champagne hangover and listen to the new “Shoot This Now” podcast on Apple or right here:
Born in Toronto to a black father and white mother, Angela James went from defending herself from bullies in the projects to becoming one of the first women ever inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. She was also the first openly gay athlete to be inducted into a major sport’s Hall of Fame, and is widely regarded as the “Wayne Gretzky of women’s hockey.”
On every episode of “Shoot This Now,” we...
Born in Toronto to a black father and white mother, Angela James went from defending herself from bullies in the projects to becoming one of the first women ever inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. She was also the first openly gay athlete to be inducted into a major sport’s Hall of Fame, and is widely regarded as the “Wayne Gretzky of women’s hockey.”
On every episode of “Shoot This Now,” we...
- 2/26/2019
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
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