Liam's Irish Traditional Music - The Great Starvation

HISTORY INDEX

There are some episodes in the history of Ireland which have lived on  in the memory of groups of people, continuing to affect the ways they feel and think.  Two such episodes for Protestants are the The Siege of Derry and The Battle of Boyne.  The potato blight, which caused wide scale famine from 1845 to 1849, left a legacy of bitterness and hatred in catholic minds.  As a result of the famine, the political events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were focused on the issues of land and independence from British rule
Agricultural Practices
The Years of Famine Begins
Aid For The Famine Victims
1847: Plague Year
The West of Ireland
Landlords & Tenants
Emigration

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