Ireland during the 1800’s was impoverished and growing rapidly. The increasing population caused the country to become dependent on one crop that could produce enough food to sustain families, the potato. Most of Ireland was reliant on the potato, and when the crop began to sporadically fail so did the people. The Irish Famine was the most devastating disaster to have struck Ireland, it changed the society by greatly reducing the population which is still trying to recuperate. There have been varying perspectives about the famine which fluctuated from nationalist to revisionist views from generation to generation. The nationalist interpretation of the Irish Famine focuses on the themes of mass mortality and suffering with a large distaste
