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1940–1945: Famine in Warsaw Ghetto, as well as other ghettos and concentration camps (note: this famine was the result of deliberate denial of food to ghetto residents on the part of Nazis). [130] Occupied Poland: 1940–1948: Famine in Morocco between 1940 and 1948, because of refueling system installed by France. [131] Morocco: 200,000: ...
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]
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 ...
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In this commentary piece, William Lambers reflects on the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and urges steps be taken to prevent future famines
Detail of the Australian Monument to The Great Irish Famine at Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. Melbourne, Victoria. In 1998 a memorial in the form of a Famine Rock with plaque was erected on the foreshore of Hobsons Bay, Port Phillip at Williamstown. This was the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first boat load of Irish Famine orphan girls. [12]
Details of the hundred objects, written by Irish Times journalist Fintan O'Toole, were initially serialized in The Irish Times between February 2011 and January 2013. In February 2013 a book about the hundred objects written by O'Toole, entitled A History of Ireland in 100 Objects , was published, and it quickly became a best-seller with 35,000 ...
14 August – Seán Russell, Irish republican and a chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army (born 1893). 21 September – Mick O'Brien, association footballer and manager (born 1893). 24 November – James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1871).