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The Irish Potato Famine

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The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
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The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. With the greatest impacted areas to the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was primarily spoken, the period was contemporaneously known as in Irish: An Drochshaol, loosely translated as the hard-times . The worst year of the period, that of Black 47, is known as Irish: Bliain an Drochshaoil. During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.Sharing much in common with the similar famines in India under British rule, the proximate cause of the famine was a natural event, a potato blight, which infected potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, precipitating some 100,000 deaths in total in the worst affected and similar tenant farmers of Europe, the food crisis was to influence much of the unrest in the more widespead European Revolutions of 1848. The event is sometimes referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, mostly outside Ireland.The famine was a watershed in the history of Ireland, which from 1801 to 1922 was ruled directly by Westminster as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Great Famine in Ireland was together with the Napoleonic Wars, to produce the greatest loss of life in 19th-century Europe. The famine and its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political, and cultural landscape, producing an estimated two million refugees and spurring a century-long population decline. For both the native Irish and those in the resulting diaspora, the famine entered folk memory. The already strained relations between many Irish and the British Crown soured further both during and after the famine, heightening ethnic and sectarian tensions, and boosting Irish nationalism and republicanism in Ireland and among Irish emigrants in the United States and elsewhere. The potato blight would return to Europe in 1879 although by that point the labourers of Ireland had in the Legacy of the Great Irish Famine, begun the Land War, described as one of the largest agrarian movements to take place in 19th-century Europe. The movement, organized by the Land League, continued the political campaign for the Tenant Right League's 1850 issued Three Fs, initially penned during the Great Famine. The League once the potato blight returned in 1879 boycotted notorious landlords and members physically blocked evictions of farmers, with this reduction in homelessness and house demolition, resulting in a drastic reduction in the number of casualties caused during the following famine.
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