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Memory Ireland: History and Modernity (2011) Gibney, John. The Shadow of a Year: The 1641 Rebellion in Irish History and Memory (2013) King, Jason. "The Genealogy of Famine Diary in Ireland and Quebec: Ireland's Famine Migration in Historical Fiction, Historiography, and Memory." Éire-Ireland 47#1 (2012): 45–69. online
[9] [10] [11] Between 1845 and 1855, at least 2.1 million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also on steamboats and barques—one of the greatest exoduses from a single island in history. [12] [13] The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight (Phytophthora infestans) [14] throughout Europe during ...
Famine: Europe: 1230: Famine in the Novgorod Republic [citation needed] Russia: 1230–1231: The Kanki famine, possibly the worst famine in Japan's history. [26] Caused by volcanic eruptions. [27] Japan: 2,000,000: 1235: Famine in England [28] England: 20,000 in London: 1252 Famine [29] Ethiopia: 1256–1258: Famine in Italy, Spain, Portugal ...
In September 1914, just as the First World War broke out, the UK Parliament finally passed the Government of Ireland Act 1914 to establish self-government for Ireland, condemned by the dissident nationalists' All-for-Ireland League party as a "partition deal". The Act was suspended for the duration of the war, expected to last only a year.
The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 (Irish: Bliain an Áir, meaning the Year of Slaughter) in the Kingdom of Ireland, is estimated to have killed between 13% and 20% of the 1740 population of 2.4 million people, which was a proportionately greater loss than during the Great Famine of 1845–1852. [1] [2] [3]
In the wake of the wars of conquest of the 17th century, completely deforested of timber for export (usually for the Royal Navy) and for a temporary iron industry in the course of the 17th century, Irish estates turned to the export of salt beef, pork, butter, and hard cheese through the slaughterhouse and port city of Cork, which supplied England, the British navy and the sugar islands of the ...
After getting his undergraduate degree at the University College Dublin, Ó Gráda got his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1973, [3] where he wrote his dissertation on the Irish economy before and after the Great Famine. [1] He described his early academic career as being "a kind of jack-of-all-trades economic historian of ...
29 September to 1 October: Pope John Paul II visited Ireland from Saturday, 29 September to Monday, 1 October 1979, the first trip to Ireland by a Pope. 1985: 15 November: 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