Great Famine

affect at different levels, at an individual of course, but also at a widespread socio-cultural one, a trauma that resides in the collective consciousness of a people, as exemplified by the effects on the Irish people due to the great famine. Significant trauma can cause a great degree of mental anguish, distress, fear and general hardship which can pervade much to just about all of a single person or an entire people’s lives. A serious side effect of large scale trauma is how it can alter a…

the Irish Potato Famine changed Ireland in a variety of ways. Farmers and regular people were starving to death due to the lack of healthy potatoes. The people in Ireland were extremely dependent on potatoes and when the blight came the economy went down. As the fungus spread throughout the country, people began to lose their main source of food. Since the people in Ireland depended on the potato, it made the population cripple with the lack of a healthy food. The Irish Potato Famine was not…

The Donnelly’s were a family who emigrated from Ireland because of the Potato Famine. They immigrated to London, Canada. In Canada, they were not the most favourite family in their township. In their township which was called the Biddulph Township, there was a lot of violence which was shown by sheep killings, arson, fights and by murders. This shows that the township was not very peaceful and there was a lot of problems and violence. This was common for them. In the text it says that the…

seek work upon arrival to the country. In the 1840’s during the Irish immigration spike it is worth noting that these people had a mainly agricultural background (Bergquist 1). After being driven to migrate by such a significant factor such as the great famine, these people used agriculture as a tool of theirs in a country dominated by unskilled labor in industry along with crop and agriculture to find…

(O’Byrne). Eavan Boland’s works such as “Quarantine” and “My Country in Darkness” greatly reflect the hardships Ireland has faced. The harsh, cold tone Eavan Boland uses throughout the poem mirrors the tone of Ireland during the time of The Great Famine. Because potato crops ceased to flourish, much of Ireland was left starving, poor, and disease ridden. In addition to famishment, the Irish were also under the thumb of the British,…

both groups shared similar types of struggles that caused people to migrate to the United States. Both groups of people experienced environmental, economic and political challenges (Adaptation and Assimilation, n.d.). The Irish experienced the Great Famine and extreme religious and political from the English in the 1700’s these were major factors that pushed people out of the country. In the 1800’s the Irish immigrated in mass to the United States during the first and second industrial…

The Great Irish Potato famine was a lack of food suffered by the Irish peasants, that started in the autumn of 1845 after a new blight ended with the crop that provided almost 60 per cent of the nation’s food needs. Some historians say that it was not a real famine but a case of neglect, considering that Ireland was exporting most of its grain and meal to other countries –mainly England- even during the worst years of the Famine, instead of closing the ports to keep…

because of problems in their home country like starvation, lack of education, and hope for a better life in hopes of achieving the American Dream. Likely the most well known cause of voluntary immigration is the potato famine, in 1840 Ireland began to starve because of the potato famine. In the nineteenth century America's population increased from 30,000 to 100,000 in one year (The Irish in America: 1840's-1930's.). From 1820 to 1860 the American population held over…

were built on the strong backs of the Irish. Before the potato famine, Irish families in America were in need of work to care for their loved ones. Immigrants would often do manual labor for low wages, however still higher than the wage they would have received in Ireland. Families were expected to live together in a room of houses owned by landowners who did not necessarily need to provide more than four walls. After the potato famine began in 1845, the struggle…

From 1845 to 1852 the potato famine in Ireland caused great despair and panic throughout the country. As a result, one must ask the question, why did such a large number of Irish people died during the great famine of 1845? Conflict over the high death toll during the famine existed, because of the different perspectives of the Irish and the English. Although individuals suggest that the high number of deaths was a result of the famine because of disease, and hunger, a closer look at the…