![]() ![]() ![]() Those who survived the crisis did so just barely they were forced off the blighted lands by absentee landlords and left to live in dire poverty. In a country of slightly more than 8.1 million people, the famine impacted one in four Irish. More than one million Irish died during the famine (1845-1852) and another 1.5 million emigrated to the New World, mostly American cities in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. ![]() Some, like Irish intellectual Thomas Francis Meagher, were even banished for life for rebelling against the British Crown’s onerous rule that nearly starved the Ireland nation to death. Through the years, I’ve read tidbits of The Great Hunger (the Irish potato famine), but I never fully comprehended the depth and breadth of human sacrifice, ruin and the millions of Irish forced to leave their native land in order to survive. ![]()
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