The Great Irish Potato Famine: What Happened, Why People Emigrated and Where They Went
How does a country lose a quarter of its population in a single decade? Between 1841 and 1851, Ireland’s population fell from roughly 8.2 million to just under 6.6 million, a drop of more than 20% recorded in Ireland’s own historical census data, according to the Central Statistics Office. No war caused it. A potato […]