Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Irish Famine
- Causes
- Large
population
- In 1841 there was an
estimated population of
8,175,00
- Possibly England
- John Mitchell claims that Ireland died
in the midst of abundance and
England created the famine
- Subdivision of land
- While 135,000 families
had less than 1 acre
- By 1845 almost 200,000
families lived on less
than 5 acres per family
- Potato Blight
- There were 14 partial
or complete potato
famines between 1816
and 1842
- A particularly big famine
in 1740 which lasted
until 1741
- Chronology
- 1845
- in 1845 a new fungal disease struck the irish crop. Ater a while the potatoes
turned into a black mush
- 1846
- Sir Robert peel bought £100,000 pounds worth of mize to send to the
irish
- 1847
- Good harvest but crops were smaller then usual. Known as
black 4
- 1850
- The famine appeared to be over at last
- Consequences
- By 1851
- 1 Million dead
- 1 Million emigrated
- 2 Million total population loss
- Interpretations
- John Mitchell Theory- He thinks that England caused the
Famine bu buying the crops from Ireland during the Blight