Ireland’s longest night: The Big Wind of January 1839
- Posted on January 5, 2026
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Ireland’s longest night: The Big Wind of January 1839
Dr Robyn Atcheson, a social historian based at Queen’s University Belfast on the ‘Night of the Big Wind’, a hurricane which left a legacy so powerful that decades later it would determine who was old enough to receive a pension
