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Sep 20, 2021 · Here are 10 facts about the Famine and its impact on Ireland. 1. The famine was caused by potato blight. By the 19th century, potatoes were a hugely important crop in Ireland, and was a staple food for many of the poor. In particular, a variety named the Irish Lumper was grown almost everywhere.
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Jun 18, 2024 · Great Famine - Relief Efforts, Ireland, 1845-1852: The British government's efforts to relieve the famine were inadequate. Because of the famine, Ireland's population went from almost 8.4 million in 1844 to 6.6 million by 1851.
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A census showed that the Irish population had fallen from 8,175,124 people to 6,552,385 from 1841 as a result of mortality and emigration. It was estimated that if the famine had not occurred, the number of people living in Ireland would have been more than nine million.
Historians disagree about whether a silence surrounded the Great Famine before 1995, the 150th anniversary of the first appearance of P hytophthora infestans , or potato blight, in Ireland....
May 17, 2024 · Albert I (born April 8, 1875, Brussels, Belg.—died Feb. 17, 1934, Marche-les-Dames, near Namur) was the king of the Belgians (1909–34), who led the Belgian army during World War I and guided his country’s postwar recovery.
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Apr 20, 2018 · Part V The Irish Abroad; Part VI The Great Famine and its Aftermath; 24 The Great Famine, 1845–1850; 25 Irish Emigration, c.1845–1900; 26 Post-Famine Politics, 1850–1879; 27 Afterword; Bibliography; Index
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Great Famine, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th century: about one million people died from starvation or from typhus and other famine-related diseases.
