With few other choices, many Irish people decided to leave Ireland and emigrate. Emigration means leaving your own country to live in a different country. Many emigrants left Ireland in 1847.

Robert Kennedy used the occasion to urge the Irish to not “stand ... that black day in February 1847, when it was announced in the House of Commons that 15,000 people a day were dying of ...

Toronto is in many ways shaped by the Irish people who emigrated here in the 1840s, escaping the Great Famine in Ireland. The influx of immigrants temporarily doubled the city’s population and led to ...