Conway Mill Trust

World expert on the Great Hunger Dr. Christine Kinealy has criticized RTE Channel 4 for proposing a comedy series based on the The Great Hunger.  She said: “The danger of using the comedy format to tell the story is that the characters can become ‘stage Oirish’ and the real heartbreak be absent or marginalized.  Instead disease, death, eviction and emigration will be viewed as funny rather than tragic and we will forget that they were preventable.”