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During the early decades of the nineteenth century, the situation for cottiers worsened considerably as the population continued to expand. This way of life was brought abruptly to a close by the effects of the potato blight, which resulted in death by starvation and disease of many peasants, with consequent depopulation, of the Great Famine of ...
Historic Maps Collection. 18th and 19th-century historic maps of Ireland. A UCD Digital Library Collection. Maps of Dublin accompanying Thom's Official Directory, printed by the Ordnance Survey for the Dublin publisher Alexander Thom from the six-inch map sheets 18 and 22, and dating from the late 19th century. A UCD Digital Library Collection.
Demolished in the early 19th century around 1815 as it was deemed structurally unsound. Part of the site now forms the location of the Clarence Hotel on Wellington Quay. 7 The Front of St. Ann's Church St. Ann's Church, Dawson Street: Demolished 1720
The growth of population inevitably caused subdivision. Population grew from a level of about 500,000 in 1000 AD to about 2 million by 1700, and 5 million by 1800. On the eve of the Great Famine the population of Ireland had risen to 8 million, most people living on ever-smaller farms and depending on the potato as a staple diet.
Ireland underwent considerable difficulties in the 19th century, especially the Great Famine of the 1840s which started a population decline that continued for almost a century. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a vigorous campaign for Irish Home Rule .
Maps of Dublin accompanying Thom's Official Directory, printed by the Ordnance Survey for the Dublin publisher Alexander Thom from the six-inch map sheets 18 and 22, and dating from the late 19th century. A UCD Digital Library Collection.
Ireland underwent major highs and lows economically during the 19th century: from economic booms during the Napoleonic Wars [citation needed] and in the late 20th century (when it experienced a surge in economic growth unmatched until the 'Celtic Tiger' boom of the 1990s), to severe economic downturns and a series of famines, the latest ...
National Library of Ireland: 81: Empty cooking pot: 19th century: National Museum of Ireland – Country Life: 82: Emigrant's teapot: late-19th–mid-20th century: National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, County Mayo: 83: William Smith O'Brien gold cup: 1854: National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History: 84: Parnell silver ...