TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1 THE COMING STORM 4 Chapter 2 THE POTATO BLIGHT 12 Chapter 3 THE GREAT HUNGER 20 Chapter 4 AFTER THE FAMINE 28 GLOSSARY 38 SOURCE NOTES 38 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 39 FURTHER INFORMATION 39 INDEX 40
THE COMING 1 THE COMING THE COMING STORM Lush green landscapes and rolling meadows fill the Irish countryside The country is well known for its natural beauty But when French traveler Gustave de Beaumont arrived in 1838 he noticed something else Ireland was in stark poverty Misery naked and famishing starvation it is the first thing you see when you land on the Irish coast and from that moment it ceases not to be present to your view he wrote Ireland came fully under English control as part of the United Kingdom in 1801 4
The Irish Potato Famine
In the mid-1840s, potato blight ruined the crops of poor farmers across Ireland. Many families went hungry without their main source of food.
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By: Nel Yomtov
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Published by: Lerner Publications an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group
