In 19th century Ireland - just one generation after the Great Famine had left a million dead and scattered the Irish across the globe - a new crop failure threatened the land and its people.
Fanny and Anna Parnell\'s Ladies Land League wo.
From this, the globally based Irish Land League was born, led by the visionary Michael Davitt.
This time round, a radical idea began to take hold: that famine was neither divine nor natural in origin but a political event, based on unequal power relations.
In 19th century Ireland - just one generation after the Great Famine had left a million dead and scattered the Irish across the globe - a new crop failure threatened the land and its people