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The worst of these was the Great Irish Famine (1845–1851), in which about one million people died and another million emigrated. [4] The economic problems of most Irish people were in part the result of the small size of their landholdings and a large increase in the population in the years before the famine. [5]
Events from the year 1840 in Ireland. Events. 10 January – Uniform Penny Post introduced. 1 April – Theatre Royal, Cork burns down.
The Great Famine of the 1840s caused the deaths of one million Irish people and over a million more emigrated to escape it. [15] It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the "Irish Potato Famine" because one-third of the population was then solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons.
In 1851, as the Great Famine was ending, the population of Ireland had dropped to 6.5 million people. The Famine and the resulting Irish diaspora had a dramatic effect on population; by 1891, Ireland's population had slipped under five million and by 1931, it had dropped to just over four million. It stayed around this level until the 1960s ...
The origins of the Population Act 1840 was the report of the 1830 Select Committee on the Population Bill, reprinted in 1840. [4] The subject of much speculation during the select committee hearings and report was the accuracy of previous census returns, [ 4 ] the first national census being held in 1801.
The beginning of mass emigration from Ireland can be traced to the mid-18th century, when some 250,000 people left Ireland over a period of 50 years to settle in the New World. Irish economist Cormac Ó Gráda estimates that between 1 million and 1.5 million people emigrated during the 30 years between 1815 (when Napoleon was defeated in ...
The governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement. 1990: 3 December: Mary Robinson becomes the first female President of Ireland. 1995: Ireland enters the Celtic Tiger period, a time of high economic growth which continues until 2007. 1998: April
In Belfast, 236 people had been killed in the first months of 1922 but there was not a single sectarian murder in the city between 1923 and 1933 Northern Ireland was reputed to have one of the lowest crime rates in Europe during this period. [89] 1924 – Musgrave Park opens. [90]