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what they left behind
Scene at Skibbereen during the Great Famine by Cork artist James Mahony, The Illustrated London News, 1847
Ireland Population Change
Sir Charles Trevalyan
phytophthora infestans
Below Decks - By Rodney Charman depicts Irish immigrants on "Coffin Ships" headed to North America
An Irish cabin c.1790 by draughtsman Arthur Young. From Ireland Illustrated 1680-1860 Archives at Moore Institute, NUI Galway

Sources

https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine

https://www.historyireland.com/the-introduction-of-the-potato-into-ireland/

Stuff You Missed in History Class: “The Irish Potato Famine: An Unnatural Disaster,” Parts 1&2 (June 2013)

The Gravel Institute “How Britain Starved Ireland” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nL_RsAjxhg

https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/robert-peel-2nd-baronet

https://www.youtube.com/@extrahistory - Irish Potato Famine Series

Patrick Brantlinger, “A Short History of (Imperial) Benevolence,” in *Burden or Benefit?: Imperial Benevolence and Its Legacies*, p. 21-22

https://www.ighm.org/learn.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5468053/

https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/irish-immigration-beyond-potato-famine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_the_Great_Famine

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Famine-Irish-history

https://archives.evergreen.edu/webpages/curricular/2006-2007/ireland0607/ireland/eyewitness-accounts-of-the-famine/index.html

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