NEWSPAPER PRESENTATION

THE GREAT FAMINE

Also known as The Irish Potato Famine, or the Great Irish Famine, the Irish famine of 1845 was the worst period in Europe in the XIXe century

This tragic event not only caused millions of deaths and immigrations, it also created a conflict between Ireland and England

In 1845, around 1.5 million poor farmer lived almost exclusively on potatoes

Many Irish people left the country to avoid starvation

1845 -1852

THE GREAT FAMINE IN IRELAND

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Discovering and devellopement in Europe

POTATOES

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A lot of people died for two reasons

STARVATION

08

Irish people was angry about England who didn't help them enought

REPROACHES MADE

02

The importance of the potato

FOOD IN IRELAND

06

Many actions are made to try to end starvation

END HUNGER

09

This starvation isn't a bad thing but an action of god

POVIDENTIALIST VISION

03

A spreading disease in Ireland

LATE BLIGHT

07

Human tool and immigration

CONSEQUENCES

10

In memory of the famine.

COMMEMORATIONS

WHAT IS THE GREAT FAMINE ?

The Great Famine was a deadly event that began in 1845. At that time, potatoes crops were destroyed by a bacterium called the late blight or mildew.

In 1830, Ireland is a poor country under the domination of England since the XVIe century

England tooks advantage of this domination to exploitthe island's resources, which were used to feed up to 2 million British people.

They had to live with what the British left them.

Irish farmer in the XIXe century

The Irish seemed to be regarded as a sub-race to be governed and lived in abject poverty.

Irish ressources

Irish population

English domination

POTAOE FIELDS

APPEARANCE OF THE POTATO

The potato is a recent discovery for Europeans and Ireland. It was only discovered in 1585 by Thomas Raleigh. Introduced in Ireland at the end of the 16th century, the cultivation of the potato quickly spread because it was perfectly adapted to the climatic and geological conditions. It is estimated that in 1845 nearly 1.5 million poor peasants ate almost exclusively potatoes.

It is the mildew, a disease, which is at the origin of the "potato famine". This bacterium was probably transported by ships from North America.The first areas affected were those in the east of Ireland. More than a million of its population would die of disease and starvation, and through forced emigration, the Irish population was reduced by nearly two million more.

Since Ireland had been an integral part of the United Kingdom since the Act of Union (1800), the British government was responsible for organizing public aid. The 1840s marked the triumph of the liberal ideology of free trade and laissez-faire economics in Great Britain. The leaders were therefore hostile to too much state intervention. In total, the British government spent about £8 million on relief, and private relief funds were also raised.

Rescue attemps

The government's reluctant and ineffective measures to relieve the distress of the famine intensified resentment of British rule among the Irish people. The famine provoked a lingering sense of bitterness among the Irish toward the British government, which many blamed for the hardships suffered by so many.

Critics about

Deaths

Immigrations

Decline of Gaelic

Thousands of Irish decided to leave for the United States, while the others died in turn from this murderous famine. The number of Irish who emigrated during the famine may have reached two million.

one million deaths and one and a half million emigrants for a country that had 8.5 million inhabitants in 1841.

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