This famine killed an estimated one ... With few other choices, many Irish people decided to leave Ireland and emigrate. Emigration means leaving your own country to live in a different country.

As a result of deaths and emigration from the famine, the population of Ireland today is smaller than it was in 1841. The potato famine also affected Irish-speaking people, and accelerated the ...

Linn, Irish famine immigrants in the 19th century were ... Linn revealed in the paper "Elixer of Emigration:Soda Water and the Making of Irish Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City ...

The museum tells the story of the Great Famine through the personal tragedies of the tenants on the Strokestown Estate and of their landlords, the once prosperous Pakenham Mahon family.

Historian Dr Robyn Atcheson said the official marking of the graves is "long overdue" The unmarked graves of thousands of people who died during the Irish famine in Belfast are finally set to be ...

that remember both the horror of the Famine and the resilience of survivors. The panicked rush to escape from Ireland during the blight was followed by waves of emigration. The Irish population ...

Prior to the Famine, there was poverty and unemployment which also led to emigration, while Ireland being under British rule was also a cause for Irish to leave the country as an escape.

Reflecting on the outcome of the crisis, he is cold: “Arising from death, emigration and dispersion ... needed more foodstuffs. [ Great Famine and Irish independence struggle linked by geography ...

Irish emigration forms a significant part of Irish ... Just a stone's throw away, you'll find The Jeanie Johnston, a replica of an old Famine Ship. It offers a glimpse into the harsh realities ...

It is a common misconception that Irish transatlantic emigration began with the Famine. In reality, while it did increase hugely during the years of the Great Hunger, the Irish had begun to ...