Oh that bread should be so dear

Having more time to enjoy, if that is the right word, a movie during the current lockdown, I watched again the excellent ‘Black 47’ a film about a returning soldier seeking revenge on those who wronged his family. Set against the backdrop of the great hunger in Ireland in the year 1847 it is a brooding and at times harrowing film. The effects An Gota Mor had on Ireland reverberate to this day. It is only European country with a smaller population now than in 1841...