![]() ![]() ![]() It was particularly shocking that this could occur in a land governed by Britain, supposedly the most progressive and prosperous nation in the world.Īt the same time the pace of change, already fast, was quickening thanks to a revolutionary expansion in communications. Initially caused by potato blight, the famine was exacerbated by the British government’s laissez-faire policy of economic non-interference. ![]() Most catastrophic of all was the Irish Famine of 1845–9, during which well over a million people died and some two million emigrated. The 1840s, which saw years of poor harvests, were known as the Hungry Forties. ![]()
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