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The Great Famine (An Ghorta Mhór) (1845-1852) - Coggle Diagram
The Great Famine (An Ghorta Mhór) (1845-1852)
CAUSES
Large population, people survived on smaller land
Poor
, couldn't buy other foods
Irish dependent on farming (potato in a
monopolistic position)
Ate diseased potatoes or starved
COURSE OF FAMINE
1846
2/3 of crop lost
to blight
Poorest starved and disease spread
1847 (black '47)
Few seeds so
no crops sewn
1845
Farmers noticed potato
stalks turning black & strange smells
coming from fields
1848-1850
Starvation & disease worsened
Bad living conditions caused
Typhus & cholera
IMPORTANT PEOPLE
Charles Trevelyan
Believed in Laissez- Faire
(let it be, it was God's way of getting the population to decrease)
Set up famine relief systems
(public works- poor irregular pay. Back breaking work)
Blocked importation as he
believed people should depend on the government
Quakers
Set up
soup kitchens
to feed the starving
Sir Robert Peel
Sent corn
to help Irish but it was
too expensive and few mills
so it was slow to grind
Indian cornmeal nicknamed =
"Peel's Brimstone"
RESULTS
Changes in farming practices
Subdivision ended
(all of land passed to oldest son)
Pasture farming more
than tillage farming
Decline of Irish language
English was now necessary to work
1 million emigrated, 1 million died