Episode 24 - Hard Hungry Winters (Yokki and the Parno Gry and The Famine Secret)

This week our picture book is Yokki and the Parno Gry by Katharine Quarmby and Ricard O’Neill – a story about a young boy in a Romani Traveller family, and the power of stories themselves

And our chapter book this week is The Famine Secret by Cora Harrison. Part of the Drumshee Timeline series, this story takes us via four young siblings into the hardships of the Irish Famine of 1845

Links:

For Yokki and the Parno Gry:

There’s a lovely video of Richard O’Neill reading Yokki and the Parno Gry here - https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/ytt/features/listen-yokki-and-parno-gry-richard-oneill

Travellers Times also has a short documentary narrated by Richard, ‘Roads From The Past: A Short History of Britain’s Gypsies, Roma and Travellers’ here - https://www.travellerstimes.org.uk/heritage/roads-past-short-history-Britains-Gypsies-Roma-and-Travellers#

‘The Goose and the Common’, the folk poem that Nina reads during the episode about the Inclosure Acts, can be read here - https://unionsong.com/u765.html

The podcast ‘99% Invisible’ have an episode about the Inclosure Acts, which can be heard here - https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/right-to-roam/

More info on Richard O’Neill can be found at his website, here - https://richardthestoryteller.weebly.com/about-richard.html

More info on Katharine Quarmby can be found at her website, here - https://katharinequarmby.com/

For The Famine Secret:

This link has some info on the ‘Yellow Fever’ and ‘Black Fever’ suffered in Ireland during the 1840’s, reference in The Famine Secret https://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/history/workdisease.htm

More info on Cora Harrison’s Drumshee Timeline can be found at her website, here - http://www.coraharrison.com/drumshee/index.html

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