The Irish Famine

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Family evicted by their landlord during the Irish Land War c1879
Family evicted by their landlord during the Irish Land War c1879

 

a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)

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