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 ...

During the Famine it was not uncommon to find the living and the dead stretched side by side on filthy straw on the ‘sleeping ...

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 ...

As was similarly the case on the Irish mainland, the population numbers on Great Blasket Island suffered as a result of the Great Famine between 1845 and 1852. On the whole, approximately 1 ...