Famine comedy will bomb if ever produced

Regarding the proposed comedy on the Famine (‘Can the famine ever be funny?’, Irish Examiner letters, January 13), I say let them produce it and watch them make fools of themselves.

I watched similar style comedy sketches on a Toronto channel about 20 years ago and it was pathetic, more so-called funny people laughing at their own jokes. Thank goodness this ‘black comedy’ show died a quick death, not from protests, but simply because it was not funny.

As for the Great Famine itself and its many causes, read Emigration from the Port of Cork’ by Dr Una O’Connor.