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Irish Great Famine
1845–1852 CE
The Irish Great Famine began in the mid-1840s after potato blight destroyed the staple crop on which millions depended. Hunger, disease, eviction and emigration devastated Ireland while British government responses became bitterly contested. The famine transformed Irish society and deepened hostility toward British rule.
Its consequences were immense: population collapse, mass migration to Britain and North America, the growth of nationalist memory and a lasting wound in Irish-British relations. The famine also exposes the intersection of land ownership, empire, economics, religion and human suffering. It is one of the most powerful nineteenth-century settings for stories of family rupture and survival.
