Great Famine of 1315–1317

In America, written and directed by Jim Sheridan, focuses on a family of Irish immigrants who move to New York in the 1980s, and must adjust to their new life. Personal experiences of the Irish during the diaspora have stayed the same throughout this film, for a countless number of reasons including job type, and crime. In America captures real life struggles throughout the eyes of the Irish, and how they had to make the best out of any situation. The Sullivan family emigrates from Ireland to…

flourishing, but when the potatoes were being harvested there were signs that the crops were diseased. By spring of 1846, there was a state of panic, because the food supplies were dissipating, leaving people to find their own food. In 1855, the Great Famine finally took its toll, leaving over one million people dead from hunger and sickness. This led people to leave Ireland, and go to the land of…

The Irish famine, which occurred in the late 1840’s, lead to the death of over one million working class Irish citizens. The famine had an immense effect on Ireland’s economy and population. The increased death rates due to starvation and the decreased amount of food available to the lower class (more specifically the western coast tenant farmers) led to massive amounts of people migrating to areas like the United States and Australia. This has had a lasting effect on the economy and population…

period were greatly affected by many events. Out of the many events that shaped that period the Black Death, The War of Roses, and the Great Famine of 1315 were the ones the greatly effected Europe. One of the biggest medieval disasters was the Bubonic Plague aka the Black Death.the "Black Death" or the Great Plague, originated in China in 1334 and spread along the great trade routes to Constantinople and then to Europe, where it claimed an estimated 60% of the European population…

faring well up until the great famine of 1315-1317. There were big changes in the weather which shortened the growing seasons and torrential rains damaged crops. Much of Europe was becoming overpopulated at this time as well. Any land that could be farmed was being farmed and there simply was not enough food to go around for everyone. Meanwhile, people began to migrate from rural areas to the more urban areas in hopes of finding better living conditions. In addition to famine and a boom…

ice age”, this led to shortened farming seasons and between 1315 and 1317, and caused heavy rains in northern Europe that destroyed harvests and led to serious food shortages. These food shortages could not have come at a worse time as Europe was reaching the peak of its population as almost all farmable land was being farmed, and a large percent of the population was very poor. In the first half of the fourteenth century, this famine killed about 10 percent of Europe’s population, leaving the…

From 1347 to 1350, one of the world’s worst epidemics in human history struck Europe, the great plague that caused enough pestilence and death that claimed roughly half of Europe’s population was called the Black Death. Until recently, the Black Death has been widely believed to be a large outbreak of the bubonic plague as some historians challenge this original view. The origins of the black death is still unclear as there are many viewpoints of this plague such as: some believe that the Black…

France and England fought against each other in the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453). In the end, France beat England and won the Hundred Years’ War, as the tide of battle turned in favor of the French by the forces of Joan of Arc. Several reasons on why France may have beaten England were Joan of Arc, who the French attributed their succession of victories to after she repulsed the English from Orléans in 1429, and the unified relationship between France and Burgundy that drove England to an…

1348. Moving along the Rhine trade routes, the plague reached Germany in 1348, and the Low Countries the same year. Historians agree that 1348 was the worst of the plague years. In May, 1349, an English wool ship brought the plague to Norway. The Great Mortality then made its way to Greenland and after killing a large proportion of the population there encountered the towering ice cliffs. It was there that in 1351, the Black Death subsided. In the three and a half years it took the Black…