Wikipedia Related to the Irish Famine:the Great Hunger,Potato famine ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1.the Irish Famine- a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (mo...
the Great Calamity, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine - a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America) Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003...
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The 15-year-old Louis XIV, as played by the Irish actor Robert Sheehan, is a major character of the short-lived historical fantasy series Young Blades from January to June 2005. George Blagden portrays Louis XIV in the Canal+ series Versailles which aired for three seasons from 2015. Musical...
Not everyone viewed the loss of so many lives as a calamity, as the preface to the Irish Census of 1851 makes clear: “…we feel it will be gratifying to your Excellency to find that the population has been diminished in so remarkable a manner by famine, disease and emigration between 18...
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[32]: 46–48 In 1488–1490, the surrounding region was plundered badly by armies fighting the Squire Francis War of succession and then suffered a famine.[10]: 759 Erasmus professed his vows as a Canon regular of St. Augustine[note 10] there in late 1488 at age 19 (or ...
Emigration has always been the preferred solution to Irish economic problems; at least since the famine in the 1840s and possibly before. Politicians here disgracefully refer to it as a “release valve”, meaning that the social tensions built up by huge unemployment can be released by clearing...
Lizzie Nunnery with a great version of Hughie Jones’ song Ellan Vannin, about the SS Ellan Vannin, the paddle steamer that sank in the Irish Sea in December 1909. Read the history of the SS Ellan Vannin (which is the Manx name for the Isle of Man), onWikipedia. ...
from what modernity would describe as “an oppressed religious underclass involved in an ethnic and cultural war with an aggressive and powerful neighbor willing and and able to actively engage instate sponsored genocideandethnic cleansing“ but which they would have called theIrish Potato Famine. ...