Escape and Aftermath | The Irish Famine (Part 3)

One Irish family fights to rebuild after the Famine.

By the mid‑1850s, Archibald MacKenzie has crossed the sea to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, trading the barren fields of Cork for the roar of furnaces. The MacKenzie family rebuilds in a world thick with smoke and prejudice. Host and genealogist Jen Baldwin, and her guest, Irish genealogy expert Fiona Fitzsimons, trace his footsteps through the evidence. What does survival look like for an Irish family forging a future in the iron valleys of Wales? 

Host and Researcher: Jen Baldwin 

Guest: Fiona Fitzsimons 

Editor: CM87Edits 

Script Editors: Niall Cullen, Madeleine Gilbert, Daisy Goddard, and Ellie Ayton 

Producers: Madeleine Gilbert, Ellie Ayton, and James Plumb 

Designer: Michael McCosh 

Executive Producers: Helen Kaye and Steve James 

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