They called it “The Great Silence.”
In 1845, Ireland was a land of noise—full of fiddles, pipers, and dancing masters. By 1847, the country had gone quiet. The Great Famine (An Gorta Mór) decimated the population, but it also caused a cultural near-extinction.
Why did the music stop? In this documentary, we step into the “Time Machine” to uncover the tragedy of Black ’47 that silenced a nation. We look past the statistics of the Great Hunger to find the forgotten fiddles, the abandoned dance halls, and the traumatic reason why traditional Irish music almost vanished forever.
Credit to : Inside Irish Music
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