Irish Famine and the Great Emigration
At a glance:
- Series: Chronology of European History
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Medicine, Health, Economics, Environmental Issues, Disasters
- Subcategories: Poverty, Poor People, Farms, Farming, Rural Life, Weather, Immigration, Immigrants
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, British History
- Geographical Location: Ireland
- Date: 1845-1854
Article abstract: The Irish famine and the Great Emigration are caused by successive potato crop failures, resulting in untold deaths, a dramatic emigration to America, the emergence of independence movements, and the birth of the Irish Republican Army.
Summary of Event
Irish peasants had long depended upon the potato, a high caloric crop, as their major source of subsistence; though monotonous, it was more nutritious than many diets of advanced countries of Europe. From 1750 to 1845, there had been no famine as devastating as the Great Irish Famine of...
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