"Buried silently and sadly" - The Irish Famine dead of 1847

Dr. Ciarán Reilly looks at how mass mortality in 1847 - "Black '47" - affected the funeral and burial tradition in Ireland. During the Great Hunger, its victims were "buried silently and sadly".

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