The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...
In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. US Ally in Asia ...
An Irish mercenary fighting for the British in 1847 abandons his post and returns home, hoping to be reunited with his family ...
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Learn about one of the worst disasters in Irish history, second only to the Black Death pandemic in death toll estimates - the Great Famine. Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine ...
The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...