Thousands of people emigrated to America across the Atlantic Ocean to escape this famine. In 1841, Ireland had a population of just over eight million. Approximately half of this population ...

First, it might interest you to know, that the size of Ireland’s population is a little more than half today (5 million people) of what it was in the pre-Famine era around 175 years ago (around ...

Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine, which was caused by a potato blight, lasted between 1845 and 1849, decimating Ireland's population and resulting in emigration on an ...

Author turns to new and often-overlooked source material for a fresh examination of the nation before independence ...

Cultural memories of the cool British response to the “potato famine” that left an estimated 1 million Irish people dead ... is what happens when an entire population is collectively punished ...