NEWSPAPER PRESENTATION

FUNFACT : Kennedy's family was Irish and immigrated to United States to avoid the Famine

1845 -1852

Many Irish people left the country to avoid starvation

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

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

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

THE GREAT FAMINE

COMMEMORATIONS

In memory of the famine.

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CONSEQUENCES

Human tool and immigration

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LATE BLIGHT

A spreading disease in Ireland

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POVIDENTIALIST VISION

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

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END HUNGER

Many actions are made to try to end starvation

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FOOD IN IRELAND

The importance of the potato

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REPROACHES MADE

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

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STARVATION

A lot of people died for two reasons

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POTATOES

Discovering and devellopement in Europe

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THE GREAT FAMINE IN IRELAND

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.40% of the crop was destroyed caused starvation in Ireland.The Famine lasted for four years because they had not detected the batcerium, so the crops didn't survive.

WHAT IS THE GREAT FAMINE ?

English domination

The Irish population was mainly rural. In the years before the famine, the rural population grew significally and the rural poor ate principally potatoe.

Irish population

Irish ressources

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

Irish farmer in the XIXe century

They had to live with what the British left them.

CONTEXT

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

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

THE MILDEW

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. FAMINE KILLS IN TWO WAYS : STARVATION AND EPIDEMICS

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.

APPEARANCE OF THE POTATO

POTAOE FIELDS

Critics about

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. "What can be expected," Trevelyan wrote, "of a nation that lives only on potatoes?” His obsession was to allow the Irish to achieve economic autonomy. For him, the famine was a unique and providential opportunity to modernize an Ireland stagnating in economic archaism.

Rescue attemps

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.

More than 90% of Irish people spoke it before 1845, it was then a symbol of the country's resistance to the English invasion. In 1860, they were only 20%.

CONSEQUENCES

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

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.

Decline of Gaelic

Immigrations

Deaths

Example of memorial in Dublin

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