173 years ago, Ireland was starving. 3 million people either died or were forced to emigrate due to the potato famine. Amid that crisis, a tribe of Native Americans collected $170 - worth $5000 in today's money - and sent it to help the Irish people. Now the Navajo nation tribe has itself been badly affected by the Coronavirus and reached out to the Irish people for help. I spoke to Naomi O'Leary from https://www.theirishpassport.com/ on the Newsroom Programme on the BBC World Service.

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