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The 18th century was a golden age of Irish smuggling. It's estimated that as many as one third of all luxury goods entering Ireland were brought in by smugglers. Far from being a fringe activity, smuggling was woven into the wider economy and remarkably was often a community enterprise with entire villages involved. It's very different than we imagine: while perhaps less glamorous, it was far more lucrative and important to the Irish economy. In this episode I'm joined by historian James Doherty to explore why smuggling boomed in the 18th century, who was involved and why entire communities...
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It was basically like online shopping. They were prepared to fight it out with the authorities and the beaches. Finn Dwyer is organizing a smuggling run next Saturday. Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast.
My name is Finn Dwyer and sadly it's not true. I'm not organizing a smuggling run next Saturday, But this episode explores the golden age of smuggling in Ireland. Now, smuggling is not something I'd ever really have thought about in relation to Irish
history but a few months back I interviewed James Daugherty, my guest in today's show. But then we were talking about the German plans to invade Ireland in World War II and at the end of the conversation James mentioned casually that he was doing research on this topic of smuggling in Ireland and I asked him to come back on the show and talk to
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