The Famine in Ireland R2W 2018 by elainemacauley https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2018-11-12 09:03:31 UTC 2023-05-23 22:24:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png The Irish Potato Famine ped50033623 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303194941 The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, began in 1845 The infestation ruined up to one-half of the potato crop that year, and about three-quarters of the crop over the next seven years. Because the tenant farmers of Ireland. The picture below is of a starving peasant family weak with hunger in their hut.

Andrew Peden]]> 2018-11-12 11:26:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303194941 The Great Famine sha50033768 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303195169 The great famine started on September 1845  and over 1 million people died over that time. Because of the potato blight people starved to deathLarge numbers of Irish people emigrated to countries such as England, America, Canada and Australia because of the famine. From 1845 to 1850, about one and a half million people left Ireland. 
conall sharpe ]]> 2018-11-12 11:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303195169 Legacy .The Famine strained relations between many Irish and The British Crown. It soured further both during and after the Famine, heightening ethnic and sectarian tensions and boosting Irish Nationalism and Republicanism in Ireland and among Irish emigrants in the United States and elsewhere. Holly Devenney dev50035647 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303198532

]]> 2018-11-12 11:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303198532 How many people died? pat50035069 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303198547 Altogether, about a million people in Ireland are reliably estimated to have died of starvation and epidemic disease between 1846 and 1851, and some two million emigrated in a period of a little more than a decade (1845-55).

Tiffany Patton

]]> 2018-11-12 11:38:02 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303198547 The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Famine, took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It caused numerous deaths due to starvation and disease and led to mass emigration from the island. dou50035041 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303199070 Ben McIlhatton]]> 2018-11-12 11:39:52 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303199070 Irish Potato famine pat50035067 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303199891 It is believed that between 500,000 to one million people died during the three years of the potato famine from starvation and disease. Another one million people became refugees and moved to Great Britain, America, Canada and Australia. 
In Ireland the potato famine at the time was known as the starvation. The potatoes was the only crop affected by the famine, but Ireland was still producing corn, wheat, barley and beef even though the people were starving.


Faith Patton
]]> 2018-11-12 11:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303199891 Approximately a third of the population of Ireland was living in dire poverty. When their only food, the potato staple, failed, they had nothing to eat at all. Many died directly from starvation, especially vulnerable people such as children and the elderly. Many more died from famine associated diseases such as cholera and typhus which spread rapidly in overcrowded conditions such as in workhouses, and when people were left roaming the roads with nowhere to go. dou50035041 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303200290 Anne Dougan]]> 2018-11-12 11:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303200290 In 1852 when the Famine came to an end 1 million people died from starvation and the population was one-eight. 2 million had left Ireland in 1855. Vessels known as coffin ships were overcrowded and caused numerous deaths. Worst still the population still did not recover. wal50035019 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201162 Stuart Wallace]]> 2018-11-12 11:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201162 Immigration pat50035069 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201226 Some of the people immigrated to America while some immigrated to other countries so that they could survive. The living conditions on the ships were terrible. It was cramped and uncomfortable and people died of illnesses due to the fact everyone were all in the same room. The beds weren't very comfortable either since they were made out of wood.

Tiffany Patton]]> 2018-11-12 11:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201226 The potato famine pat50035067 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201328 The famine was caused by a potato blite which is a fungus like organism which destroyed potatoes very quickly in Ireland and Europe. The potato famine was very severe in Ireland because the people only ate potatoes. The picture shows a potato affected by the potato blite.
Faith Patton]]> 2018-11-12 11:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201328 Great Famine, also called Irish Potato Famine or Famine of 1845, A famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845 til 1849 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The crop failures were caused by late blight a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant. mcp50035175 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201803 Leah McPeake]]> 2018-11-12 11:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201803 dou50035041 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201814 Anne Dougan]]> 2018-11-12 11:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303201814 Potatoes dev50035647 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303202078 The Famine began quite mysteriously in September 1845 as leaves on potato plants suddenly turned black and curled, then rotted, seemingly the result of a fog that had wafted across the fields of Ireland.  There were no potatoes left during that appalling time so people tried to survive off eating animals, grass and other plants they were so desperately hungry.
 Holly Devenney

]]> 2018-11-12 11:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303202078 mci50036464 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303202820 2018-11-12 11:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303202820 Emigration and the famine. About one million people died from starvation or from typhus and other famine-related diseases. The number of Irish who emigrated during the famine may have reached two million. Ireland’s population continued to decline in the following decades because of overseas emigration and lower birth rates. By the time Ireland achieved independence in 1921, its population was barely half of what it had been in the early 1840s. mcp50035175 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303202869

Leah McPeake]]> 2018-11-12 11:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303202869 Famines due to the failure of the potato crop had occurred before in Irish history, such as a large scale famine in 1741. The last one preceding the Great Famine occurred in 1839. This was not the first Irish Famine by any means. The Potato Famine in Ireland started in 1845 and continued until 1852. dou50035041 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303202994 Anne Dougan]]> 2018-11-12 11:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303202994 mci50036464 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303203292 2018-11-12 11:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303203292 dou50035041 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303203618 Anne Dougan]]> 2018-11-12 11:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303203618 mci50036464 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303203946 2018-11-12 11:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303203946 Population and the famine. dev50035647 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303205588 The infestation ruined up to one-half of the potato crop that year, and about three-quarters of the crop over the next seven years. Because the tenant farmers of Ireland—then ruled as a colony of Great Britain—relied heavily on the potato as a source of food, the infestation had a catastrophic impact on Ireland and its population. Before it ended in 1852, the Potato Famine resulted in the death of roughly one million Irish from starvation and related causes, with at least another million forced to leave their homeland as refugees.

Holly Devenney

]]> 2018-11-12 11:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303205588 The people emigrated in sailing ships to Canada, America and New Zealand. They were called the coffin ships because people were squeezed into the ships, and living in cramped, unhealthy conditions. People were dying from the disease caused by all the people around them and many never survived the journey. mci50036464 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303206586 Amy Mooney]]> 2018-11-12 12:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303206586 dou50035041 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303207520 Anne Dougan]]> 2018-11-12 12:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303207520 Faith Patton pat50035067 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303207574 People getting on the boats to go to America.]]> 2018-11-12 12:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303207574 ped50033623 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303207924 2018-11-12 12:07:00 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303207924 Faith Patton pat50035067 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303208204 2018-11-12 12:07:58 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303208204 1.5 million people had to leave Ireland for their own good. During the Famine they emigrated to England, Scotland, South Wales, North America and Australia. A quarter of Liverpool's population was Irish-born in 1851. In 1855 the pre-famine rate for emigration was 50,0000 per year. wal50035019 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303209264 Stuart Wallace]]> 2018-11-12 12:11:53 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303209264 mci50036464 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303211557 2018-11-12 12:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303211557 The famine graveyards mci50036464 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303212795 A study of more than 500 Irish child skeletons from a mass workhouse grave has shown the harrowing deaths suffered by the Famine’s youngest victims. A recent study of the skeletons of children buried between 1847 and 1851 in the grounds of Kilkenny Union Workhouse showed almost two thirds of the 545 youngsters buried in the mass grave were under six while workhouse records show the mortality rate for babies under the age of two was four times higher than older children. The study revealed retarded growth, signs of rampant scurvy and infectious diseases. The high death rate of workhouse children aged under two may have been because their mothers were unable to feed them.
This is one of the graveyards of the famine.

Ben Mcilhatton]]> 2018-11-12 12:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/303212795 elaine_macauley https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/309398402 2018-11-29 16:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/309398402 The Land system. In Ireland most of the land was owned by the Plantation landlords, and most of people were te poorest 'cottier' class lived on 'potato gardens', often sub-divided among their sons. By the 1840s, close on two-fifths of the population were totally dependant on the potato and it was the major food-source of the rest.Between 1845 and 1849, the potato crop failed in three seasons out of four resulting in starvation and disease. One million people died of hunger and disease during the crisis and more than one million emigrated, mainly to the United States - often in the notorious 'coffin ships', so-called because many people died moo50033590 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/310372980 Amy Mooney]]> 2018-12-03 12:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/310372980 elaine_macauley https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/310380149 2018-12-03 13:14:51 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/310380149 The potato blight would return to Europe in 1879 although by that point the labourers of Ireland had in the Legacy of the Great Irish Famine, begun the "Land War", described as one of the largest agrarian movements to take place in 19th-century Europe. fle500377711 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/311271876 Megan Fleming]]> 2018-12-05 09:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/311271876 During the Famine period, an estimated half-million Irish were evicted from their cottages. Unscrupulous landlords used two methods to remove their penniless tenants. The first involved applying for a legal judgment against the male head of a family owing back-rent. After the local barrister pronounced judgment, the man would be thrown in jail and his wife and children dumped out on the streets. . ANDREW peden ped50033623 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/311273970 2018-12-05 09:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/311273970 In the 17th and 18th centuries, Irish Catholics had been prohibited by the penal laws from purchasing or leasing land, from voting, from holding political office, from living in or within 5 miles (8 km) of a corporate town, from obtaining education, from entering a profession, and from doing many other things necessary for a person to succeed and prosper in society. The laws had largely been reformed by 1793, and the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 allowed Irish Catholics to again sit in parliament. fle500377711 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/311273994 Megan Fleming]]> 2018-12-05 09:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/311273994 WHERE did the potato blight first strike in Ulster? According to reports it may have occurred at Florencecourt in Co Fermanagh but there are others who say that it had struck even earlier in Londonderry. While in the Co Antrim towns of Antrim, Ballycastle, Ballymoney and Lisburn all had their potato harvest destroyed by the disease. But at Larne “much of the crop was eatable. But on the whole ,the story of the famine in Ulster has been a neglected one. Indeed there was an accepted belief that there was no famine in Ulster but this is far from the truth and the famine affected each of the nine counties of historical Ulster in different ways. Between 1841 and 1851, Ulster’s population fell by nearly one-fifth. sha50033768 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/311274844 conall sharpe]]> 2018-12-05 09:45:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/311274844 Ballymoney famine dea50033609 https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/339896698 The Irish Poor Law of 1838 introduced a relief system for poor, sick and destitute people.  Ireland was divided into 130 Poor Law Unions, with a workhouse established in each. The Ballymoney Workhouse was completed in 1843 and was managed by a Board of Guardians, elected by local rate-payers. Cori Dean ]]> 2019-03-11 12:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/339896698 The Soup Kitchen elaine_macauley https://padlet.com/elaine_macauley/u1gyb1cuf5qv/wish/356540346 February 26th, 1847: Soup is now considered the best hope and cheapest means of keeping the Irish alive until the harvest. The Temporary Relief Act is rushed through Parliament. Known as the "Soup Kitchen Act", it is to provide emergency rations during the summer months. 

But the Home Secretary, Sire George Grey, impressed by the Edenderry experiment, regards soup kitchens as an effective way of providing extensive relief cheaply. 

He therefore recommends that soup kitchens, organised by local relief committees, be established in areas of intense distress.

The impact of the Famine is being experienced even in the wealthiest parts of the country. The Belfast union, for example, has problems common to all workhouses at present rapidly increasing pauper numbers (as the destitute flock to the town) and a high rate of disease within the poorhouse. Mortality among the older inmates is averaging 50 to 60 a week.

James Gordon 

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