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The Irish Famine: 1845-9 - http://www.victorianweb.org/history/famine.html
Explanation of the blight that destroyed the potato crop, leading to a widespread famine. |
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Lord Lucan and the Irish Potato Famine - http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/victorian/history/famine2.html
Fifteen-page transcription from "The Reason Why" published by McGraw-Hill in 1953. |
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Ireland: The Great Famine - http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/lexiso/
Includes information includes a map of Ireland, science of the potato blight and emigration. |
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Famine In Ireland - http://history-world.org/famine_in_ireland.htm
Text by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy. |
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The History Place - Irish Potato Famine - http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/
Six chapters covering all aspects of the 1845 potato crop failure. Includes an overview, a look at the effects, so called 'coffin ships' and subsequent emigration. Provides illustrations. |