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Dec 3, 2020 · The Great Famine (1845-1852) was a truly modern famine and one of the greatest social disasters in nineteenth-century Europe. Over a million people perished and a further million and a...
- Between two worlds: the Hungry Forties in Europe - RTÉ
The famine killed about 1 million Irish. In the rest of...
- The Great Irish Famine - RTÉ
The Great Irish Famine was one of the greatest social...
- Between two worlds: the Hungry Forties in Europe - RTÉ
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history ...
- Blight and Poor Harvests
- A Multi-Layered Crisis
- Regional and National Differences
- Expanding Economies, Growing Vulnerabilities
- Tackling The Crisis
- Between Two Worlds
In 1845 Phytophthora infestans, the mysterious fungus that caused the blight, was most destructive in the Netherlands and Belgium, due to its early appearance in these countries. In Belgium, almost 90 per cent of the potato harvest was lost. By comparison, about 30 per cent of Irish harvest was lost in that year, mainly because the blight arrived s...
The food crisis of the mid-1840s soon led to a financial and industrial crisis. As food prices went up, more resources, both private and public, were used to buy and import food. Industry suffered as demand for its products dropped and credit for new investments became harder to get. Several European countries experienced a deep industrial slump, e...
The regions and countries most affected by the crisis of the Hungry Forties are located along a line from Ireland, Britain, and the Low Countries to East Prussia. North and south, in Scandinavia, France, Southern Germany and further towards the Mediterranean, the crisis had at most a mild impact. Different indicators show the effect of hunger. Most...
The 1840s famine hit Western Europe after a century of growth and expansion on many fronts. After the middle of the eighteenth century, population started to grow, even more so in urban areas than in rural areas. Urbanisation increased, as did industrial production. Yet except for England, the Netherlands, and to a lesser extent Belgium, most of th...
Historians who have studied the 1840s believe that local community networks and actions of local elites were best able to bring relief. Local institutions organised support for their poor, intervened in markets, employed people in public works and prohibited begging and vagrancy. In some areas however, most notably Ireland, the strength and resilie...
The 1840s food crisis was a 'classic’ famine, in the sense that it was caused primarily by a substantial drop in the amount of food that was physically available. In several parts of Western Europe, it affected broad groups of society and caused a significant increase in social distress and in the number of dead. At the same time, it contained elem...
Jun 14, 2018 · We assembled famine chronologies related to nine macro-areas of the European continent: Britain, France, Germany (including Switzerland and Austria), Ireland, Italy, Low Countries, Nordic...
- Guido Alfani, Cormac Ó Gráda
- 2018
Aug 5, 2024 · Great Famine, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th century: about one million people died from starvation or from typhus and other famine-related diseases.
- Joel Mokyr
- The Great Famine was caused by a failure of the potato crop, which many people relied on for most of their nutrition. A disease called late blight...
- As a direct consequence of the famine, Ireland's population fell from almost 8.4 million in 1844 to 6.6 million by 1851. About 1 million people die...
- The potato plant was hardy, nutritious, calorie-dense, and easy to grow in Irish soil. By the time of the famine, nearly half of Ireland's populati...
- The Irish relied on one or two types of potatoes, which meant that there wasn't much genetic variety in the plants (diversity is a factor that usua...
- About one million people died during the Great Famine from starvation or from typhus and other famine-related diseases. An estimated two million mo...
The Great Irish Famine was one of the greatest social disasters in nineteenth-century Europe. Over a million people died and a further million and a quarter fled the country for distant...
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Feb 17, 2011 · The Irish Famine. By Jim Donnelly. Last updated 2011-02-17. A million people are said to have died of hunger in Ireland in the late 1840s, on the doorstep of the world's richest nation....
