AICÍD The Great Flu in Ireland
A documentary for TG4, BBC Northern Ireland and BCI
TX: 04.11.07
Duration: 50 mins

Ninety years ago, a billion people around the world fell ill with this influenza. Over the course of 12 months, fifty million people died. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the greatest killer the world has ever known.

Aicíd tells the story of the 1918 influenza pandemic in Ireland. It attacked people of all ages and classes and reached every corner of the country. Schools were closed, work was disrupted and lives were in chaos, even the 1918 football finals were postponed. With dramatic reconstructions and original research, this documentary will reveal, for the first time, the earliest recorded outbreak of the 1918 influenza in Ireland.

An ArKhive@esras production, 2008
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