The Irish Potato Famine: The Immigration, Genocide, and Deaths of Ireland

From 1845 to 1852, the Great Hunger, also referred to as the Potato Famine, was a period of a lot of starvation and illness in Ireland. The period was known in Irish at the time as a Drochshaol, loosely translated as "the hard days," with the most badly affected districts in the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was popular (or actually "the bad life").

The year 1847, at times called "Black '47," was the absolute worst year of the period. Around 1 million people died and ov...