I'm doing a reaserch project for school and it would help out a lot if someone could tell me where to find the information.
2006-09-27 11:19:04 · 3 answers · asked by sweetypie 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Here's a great starting point:
From Wikipedia....
The Great Famine or the Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol), known more commonly outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, is the name given to the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1851. The Famine was due to the unfortunate appearance of "the Blight" – the potato fungus that almost instantly destroyed the primary food source for the majority population. The immediate after-effects of The Famine continued until 1851. Much is unrecorded, and various estimates suggest that between 500,000 and more than one million people died in the five years from 1846 to 1851. Some two million refugees are attributed to the Great Hunger (estimates vary), and much the same number of people emigrated to Great Britain, the United States, Canada, and Australia (see the Irish Diaspora).
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2006-09-27 11:21:21 · answer #1 · answered by renee_kovach 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia
2006-09-27 11:21:11 · answer #2 · answered by play_8 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which one? sorry could not resist--tons of infor on the internet. let your fingers to the walking.
2006-09-27 11:22:14 · answer #3 · answered by mld m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋