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	HISTORY 265 – IRELAND SINCE 1798
		The reliance of potatoes was unevenly distributed, both geographically and socially, with landless agricultural labourers and cottiers dominating the potato eaters, while potato growing (although spread throughout Ireland) was most concentrated in the west and south, from county Cork to county Donegal.
		However, the impact of the famine led to a drastically reduced birth rate and a population decrease of twenty five per cent from 1845 to 1851, a tremendous change from the rapid population growth of the previous century.
		The acceptability of migration increasing enormously during the Famine, customary constraints and prudential considerations were swept aside by panic-driven desperation to leave the country, especially in 1847 during the worst episode of the Famine.
	portal.jarbury.net /essay/famine.html (2385 words)

	The Irish Famine, 1845-50
		The Irish Famine of 1846-50 took as many as one million lives from hunger and disease, and changed the social and cultural structure of Ireland in profound ways.
		An electronic archive of primary source material on the Irish Famine could be arranged in a number of ways -- according to topics such as hunger and disease, eviction and homelessness, emigration, etc. As the reader will see, interpretations of the Famine vary drastically according to a source's religion, ethnicity and other factors.
		The suffering of this catastrophe was deeply embedded in the minds of Irish emigrants and with it died all hope of accomodation with Britain.
	www.geocities.com /ri_aoh/famine.htm (1878 words)

	Digital History
		During the summer of 1845, a "blight of unusual character" devastated Ireland's potato crop, the basic staple in the Irish diet.
		A few days after potatoes were dug from the ground, they began to turn into a slimy, decaying, flish "mass of rottenness." Expert panels convened to investigate the blight's cause suggested that it was the result of "static electricity" or the smoke that billowed from railroad locomotives or the "mortiferous vapours" rising from underground volcanoes.
		Irish peasants subsisted on a diet consisting largely of potatoes, since a farmer could grow triple the amount of potatoes as grain on the same plot of land.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /historyonline/irish_potato_famine.cfm (504 words)

	INSIGHT Magazine - The Famine
		Irish Protestants - as well as many British commentators - encouraged the view that the Irish Catholics were guilty by locating 'the blame for the state of Irish society squarely on the moral failings of Irish men of all classes'.
		The Irish sulked in the unintelligent margins of the rest of British Calvinist society and the mass starvation was perceived as divine judgement - and thus it was beyond the analysis of mere mortal economic rationale.
		The trauma generated by the potato blight was manipulated to present a scenario of north-east versus the rest of Ireland in which 'Antrim, Armagh and Down' (the three richest and most Protestant counties in Ireland) '[were] to be made the preserves of the paupers of Connaught to graze on'.
	homepage.eircom.net /~archaeology/two/famine.htm (6747 words)

	Irish potato famine (legacy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1848 Young Ireland rebellion under Thomas Davis, though occurring at the start of the Famine, was hardly impacted upon by the Famine, as much as by the clash between the constitutional nationalism and Catholicism of O'Connell and the pluralist republicanism of Davis.
		A controversial claim made by a significant number of historians is that the Famine amounted to genocide by the British against the Irish, which implies a deliberate policy of planned extermination.
		Many Irish and American historians, however, still insist that what happened was genocide, sometimes accusing some Irish historians, statisticians and researchers who state otherwise of pushing a British point of view, of revisionism and rewriting history to make excuses for British imperialism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_potato_famine_(legacy) (1813 words)

	The Legacy of the Great Famine
		The famine accelerated changes taking place in the Irish and Scottish nations and for those whose lives were affected, it left a legacy of mordancy which to this day influences political and popular ideologies.
		The impact of the famine was not as devastating for Scotland in terms of mortality.
		Famine relief programs were assumed by the Free Church of Scotland, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Destitution Committees which later united to form the Central Board for the Relief of Highland Destitution.
	allfreeessays.com /student/The_Legacy_of_the_Great_Famine.html (3071 words)

	Read Ireland - Top Tens - The Irish Famine
		Irish peasants were faced with starvation, eviction and disease, while, ironically, shiploads of grain and cattle continued to be exported to England.
		With the landmark contribution, the history of the Irish Famine is take out of the hands of 'the political commentator, the ballad singer, and the unknown maker of folk-tales,' and placed on a scholarly footing.
		The Irish Famine of 1845-52, although a pivotal event in the development of modern Ireland, was for decades marginalised or ignored by Irish historians.
	www.readireland.ie /top/famine.html (1101 words)

	The Great Irish Famine
		During the worst months of the famine, in the winter of 1846-47, tens of thousands of tenants fell in arrears of rent and were evicted from their homes.
		Irish intervention on behalf of the Stuarts was to be made impossible forever by reducing the Catholic Irish to helpless impotence.
		Irish sailors who mutinied to help their countrymen were flogged unmercifully, and "ironed" together with handcuffs, thumbscrews and slave leg bolts.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/irish/irish_pf.html (16021 words)

	Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Famine was due to the appearance of "the Blight" (also known as phytophthora)– the potato fungus that almost instantly destroyed the primary food source for the majority population.
		The Irish Potato Famine was the culmination of a social, biological, political and economic catastrophe.
		The fairly sudden shift towards potato cultivation in the early years of the French Revolution allowed a nation that had traditionally hovered on the brink of starvation in times of stability and peace to expand its population during a decades-long period of constant political upheaval and warfare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Irish_potato_famine (4411 words)

	The Famine
		The soup kitchen was surrounded by a cloud of those famine spectres, half naked and standing or sitting in the mud beneath a cold drizzling rain.
		The cause of the famine was a fungus disease which made the potato plants to rot in the ground, giving off an appalling stench.
		The famine was to prove a watershed in Anglo-lrish relations, for the inadequacy of government measures left an enduring legacy of bitterness in Ireland and among those thousands of Irish emigrants who found a new life across the Atlantic.
	www.pioneernet.net /connolly/famine.htm (1789 words)

	Potato Famine Memorial at the Celtic Cafe
		The Irish were also the largest foreign born group in Portland at the time, comprising 30 percent of the City's foreigners.
		Once settled in Oregon history shows that the Irish lived out the remainder of their lives serving the needs of the State as if it were their own native land.
		When you see the Irish Famine Memorials throughout the USA, whether they be in Philadelphia, or at the UN in New York, the images you see of Ireland are depressing and macabre.
	www.celticcafe.com /archive/Oregon/Famine_Memorial (1790 words)

	The Great Famine
		However, the Irish peasants were unused to a cash economy, for they had traditionally worked for a landlord in return for a plot of land on which to grow potatoes.
		The government hoped that Irish landlords would bear the major responsibility for their tenants' welfare, but many landlords already faced ruin.
		The famine was to prove a watershed in Anglo-Irish relations, for the inadequacy of government measures left an enduring legacy of bitterness in Ireland and among those thousands of Irish emigrants who found a new life across the Atlantic.
	www.irelandseye.com /aarticles/history/events/dates/famine2.shtm (393 words)

	The Great Hunger
		Many historians believe that the Famine (1845-1852) known as The Great Hunger or An Gorta Mor in Irish, is the defining event in all of Irish history.
		When the potato blight struck in 1845 the population of Ireland was over 8 million.
		By the time the Famine “ended” seven years later, the population was about 5 million, with parts of the west of Ireland nearly totally depopulated.
	www.users.drew.edu /wrogers/famine.html (446 words)

	Quintin Publications \| The Irish Famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A history of the Great Irish Famine unique for its illustrations, for its extraordinary facsimile documents from the time, and for its accessibility to the general reader.
		They form a sobering pictorial account of the Famine, many of the illustrations having been drawn as first-hand accounts by British citizens sent to witness the suffering and devastation of the starving Famine victims.
		Thoroughly exploring the Famine's complex backdrop of economic, social, political, and cultural factors, and the Famine's vivid legacy in the modern world, this completely new assessment sheds brilliant new light on a pivotal event in Irish history.
	www.quintinpublications.com /famine.html (695 words)

	W3Perl - Histoire - Irlande - The great famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hunger was no novelty to peasant families, for there had been partial failures of the potato crop in other years.
		The cause of the famine was a fungus disease which caused the potato plants to rot in the ground, giving off an appalling stench.
		In 1846, the potato crop was a total failure.
	www.w3perl.com /www/histoire/irlande/famine.html (638 words)

	The Great Irish Famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		We can only wait the result." Later that year Trevelyan declared: "The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people." (36.) In 1848 Trevelyan was knighted for his services in Ireland.
		While even our Depression could never match the devastation of The Great Famine, I find the general approaches and attitudes of Great Britain toward occupied Ireland to be identical to that of politicians, Big Business and the GOP towards Ameica's poor.
		"...Potato blight, "phytophthora infestans", did spread from America to Europe in 1844, to England and then Ireland in 1845 but it didn't cause famine anywhere.
	hubpages.com /hub/The_Great_Irish_Famine_ (1948 words)

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		This is the reason commercial fishers chose their livelihood in the beginning: to bring health-giving food for people, to bring a long and healthy life to them.
		The legacy of Tommy Douglas was universal medicare, the crown and envy of other nations, the legacy of commercial fishers can be universal salmon, preventative medicine to make sure the medical plans continue into the new century with security and sustainability.
		God's famine is known by the general scarcity of food.
	www3.telus.net /octaviastories/irish.famine.salmon.crisis.doc (817 words)

	Legacy Matters: Famine Coffin
		Called "famine coffin", it's not a coffin, but a sculpture by Steven O'Loughlin to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the great Irish potato famine that killed a million and forced the emigration of a million and a half more out of a total population of 8 million.
		At the base of the cross two sad figures cradle a withered potato plant.
		The faces for this panel were taken from photos and paintings of the famine period.
	www.estatevaults.com /lm/archives/2006/11/17/famine_coffin.html (340 words)

	Quintin Publications \| Irish Famine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This broad ranging series of essays was broadcast on Irish radio as part of the Thomas Davis Lecture Series.
		Topics include landscape change, food, fever, the role of the poor law, famine relief, eviction, folk memory, the Famine in literature and the famines of today.
		Thoroughly exploring the famine's complex backdrop of economic, social, political and cultural factors and the famine's vivid legacy in the modern world, this new assessment sheds brilliant new light on a pivotal event in Irish history.
	www.quintinpublications.com /irish_famine.html (186 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America: Books: Arthur Gribben,Ruth-Ann M. Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Irish Hunger: Personal Reflections on the Legacy of the Famine by Tom Hayden
		A fascinating collection of essays that reveals, often in unexpected ways, the effects of the Irish famine on both sides of the Atlantic.
		As a contributor to this volume on the Great Famine in Ireland, I think that this book makes an important contribution to the historiography of the Famine insofar as it may be the only volume to trace the linkage between the U.S. and Ireland during that tragic era.
	www.amazon.com /Great-Famine-Irish-Diaspora-America/dp/1558491732 (1150 words)

	History of Irish Potato Famine
		September 29, "The potato crop looks most luxuriant but some are complaining that a disease has prevailed to a partial extent”
		Do not give him time in gaol to leave behind him amongst his friends a legacy of revenge.
		nother account of the Famine can be found here just click here
	www.geocities.com /willboyne/nosurrender/primary.html (1653 words)

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