Category

Great Famine (Ireland)

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Great Irish Famine

1845 -1852 famine in Ireland

Phytophthora infestans

microorganism that causes late blight

19th-century trade restrictions on imported food and grain in the United Kingdom

Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet

colonial administrator and historian (1807-1886)

Young Ireland rebellion

1848 Irish nationalist uprising

1847 United Kingdom general election

general election held in the UK

Praedecessores Nostros

Jeanie Johnston

ship, replica of a three masted barque from 1847

Ballinglass Incident

Mass eviction during the Great Famine in Ireland

American writer, philanthropist and activist (1792–1855)

typhus epidemic of 1847

disease outbreak in North America

Cecil Woodham-Smith

British historian (1896-1977)

Doolough Tragedy

event in the Great Irish Famine in Mayo