Essay On Irish Potato Famine

Devastating and Drastic, 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 only a huge drop in population, but emigration, and a quality living for many people. As the rise in the dependence of potato grew the people of Ireland started to make a living on the growing them. The potato became a living …show more content…
As the blight spread the million of people dependent on the potato crop started to become sick. This lead to hundred of thousands dying and even more lying sick in their homes. James Mahoney an artist who lived in Cork, Ireland at the time said “...the horrors of poverty became visible, in the vast number of famished poor, who flocked around the coach to beg aims”.(Source 1) The horrors of living in the Ireland became so bad people were begging for food. When things get so rough for a group of people they try to do anything to survive. Since food is a necessity to survive people are willing to do whatever it takes to try and obtain it. This truly shows the impact of how bad the famine became for these people. The descrution of Ireland was so bad people were able to see the devesation on the land. The London News accounted for the devastation by saying “in the whole district of the south and west of Ireland, not a corn stack is to be seen”.(source 5) The country was beginning to show the lack of food it had. Visably the beautiful country of Ireland with its plush land and green pastures was becoming a dry and non fertile land. England being in control of Ireland should help support and get the country back on its