The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

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In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record of the terrible conditions many Irish immigrants endured while ...

The famine killed more than a million Irish people and forced about a million more to emigrate after blight devastated the potato crop ... the home of many Irish immigrants," she said.

📜 Irish Potato Famine: The Young and the Old - Irish leaders entered the picture when the 1847 Poor Laws backfired, leading landowners to mass-evict their starving tenants. Daniel O'Connell ...

A memorial to those who suffered in the Irish and Highland famines ... from the Highlands and Islands due to the famine, which saw blight devastate potato crops. Some of those who came from ...

The Genealogy Club of Newtown will conduct its next meeting via Zoom on Wednesday, January 8, at 7 pm. The focus of the ...

and the potato famine devastated them. Thousands came to America between 1845 and 1850, and Boston was one of the main seaports of their landing. Many Irish immigrants barely had the means to make ...