As the food crisis ... Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the IrishCentral History Facebook group. With the onset of the Great Famine, his health crumbled.

but most of this food was exported to the burgeoning industrial cities of England and not eaten by the Irish. As a result, poverty was widespread in Ireland. When the potato famine occurred in ...

to fluctuating food markets, and to wages driven downward by the pressure of too many laborers looking for too little work. Militant Irish nationalism would follow Jane Wilde in seeing the famine ...

Growing for a diversity of needs, from food to fibre, protected flax producers from the devastation of the potato famine. Today, despite its rich history, it’s near-impossible to get your hands on ...

on the ethics of food exports amidst famine. And it should ask why these patterns persist into our own time. Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the ...

But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past ... Ireland began to export more food. Landlords subdivided their estates to generate rent. Potatoes, which produced good yields on small ...

He writes, in a non-judgmental manner, of people denying food to family members and then ... needed more foodstuffs. [ Great Famine and Irish independence struggle linked by geography and ...