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Synopsis
The Irish winter of 1947 was the coldest and longest of the 20th Century. Kevin Kearns gets behind the headlines to reveal in tremendous detail the hardship, depravation and loss of life that gripped a vulnerable country as a result of an extended period of freakishly cold weather.