@VannaBlack Also, it looks like this 2020 documentary, The Hunger, is about a time within this ~100 year period:

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13414418/

#thehunger #hunger #famine #irishfamine #potatofamine #landlords #capitalism #feudalism #democracy #evictions #irish #ireland #british #britain

Some Irish population density mapping by Alan Fernihough (QUB) for the #IrishFamine Project #demographics #population #IrishHistory

Interesting:

“The use of a longitudinal database of Famine immigrants who initially settled in New York .. indicates that the Famine Irish had far more occupational mobility than previously recognized. Only 25% of men ended their working careers in low-wage, unskilled labor; 44% ended up in white-collar occupations of one kind or another—primarily running saloons, groceries, and other small businesses.”

https://direct.mit.edu/jinh/article-abstract/53/3/407/114352/The-Best-Country-in-the-World-The-Surprising

Via:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/01/saturday-assorted-links-389.html

#anGortaMór #IrishFamine #NewYork

An Gorta Mór reported was first reported on 22nd December 1849. Bridget O’Donnel was a famine victim from County Clare whose story appeared in The Illustrated London News on December 22, 1849.

Evicted from her home while pregnant and sick with fever, O’Donnel endured a losing her child at birth and watching her thirteen-year-old son starve to death.

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/interview-grieving-irish-famine-mother

#Ireland #IrishHistory #AnGortaMór #IrishFamine

Currently listening my way through the brilliant #HistoryIreland hedge school podcasts. This one from 2018 on the #IrishFamine recorded around the time of the Black 47 movie is well worth a listen, as the famine and its aftermath is the formative event in this island's #history

[History Ireland] THE GREAT HUNGER REASSESSED #historyIreland
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/111254425 via @PodcastAddict

# potatoes. Of equal importance to the #Irish, the #Peruvians and the good folk of #Idaho. Fascinating article on them here. Also, the oft-used Irish term “he’s a great big lump” possibly comes from someone who was thought to have grown to such a size by eating a large amount of Lumper potatoes, the almost exclusively grown crop at the time up to the horrors of the #IrishFamine https://www.sustainablemarketfarming.com/tag/lumper/

Nothing beats newsprint, but for convenience the online version of our short article on #Dublin & the Great #IrishFamine in the Irish Independent is also here: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/when-the-famine-made-dublins-streets-a-gigantic-refugee-camp-42117315.html