Irish Consul General Discusses Georgia and Ireland's Unique Bond Ahead of Film Screening

GPB will be hosting a film screening of Black 47 , an action-adventure drama that takes place during the Irish potato famine of the late 1840s. Shane Stevens, consul general of the Irish Consulate, will be at GBP in Atlanta on Wednesday for a screening of the film alongside GPB CEO Teya Ryan and the film’s star James Frecheville. Some 800,000 Georgians claim Irish heritage. The first shipload of immigrants from Ireland docked on the coast of what became the colony of Georgia and 1734. Thousands were escaping the potato famine of 1845 to 1849, when nearly a million Irish nationals died. Black 47 examines the horrors of the famine and the resilience of the Irish people.