History of Ireland 1801-1922

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 237. Chapters: Great Famine, Easter Rising, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Irish Republic, Acts of Union 1800, Government of Ireland Act 1920, Anglo-Irish Treaty, House of Commons of Southern Ireland, Legacy of the Great Irish Famine, Three Fs, First Dáil, Message to the Free Nations of the World, Independent Irish Party, General Post Office, Second Dáil, Home rule, Ireland and World War I, Irish nationalism, Unionism in Ireland, List of historic Dáil Éireann constituencies, History of Ireland 1801-1923, Irish Parliamentary Party, Guinness, Home Rule Act 1914, Irish Republican Brotherhood, Royal Munster Fusiliers, Irish general election, 1918, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, County Wexford, Irish Volunteers, Irish Land and Labour Association, Local Government Act 1898, Grosse Isle, Quebec, Bloody Sunday, Young Ireland, Connaught Rangers, Conscription Crisis of 1918, Irish Home Rule Movement, Irish Land Acts, Chronology of the Great Famine, List of Irish local government areas 1900-21, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Irish Convention, Plan of Campaign, Anglo-Irish Treaty Dáil vote, Island of Ireland Peace Park, National Volunteers, Dublin Lock-out, Royal Irish Constabulary, Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Irish Race Conventions, Irish National Land League, Catholic Emancipation, Party Processions Act, Irish Republican Army and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, Third Dáil, Irish Patriot Party, Catholic Association, Wildgoose Lodge Murders, Celtic Revival, Howth gun-running, Sinn Féin Manifesto 1918, Souperism, The Valley of Knockanure, 3rd Tipperary Brigade, Irish Government Bill 1893, Government of Ireland Bill 1886, Tithe War, Parnell Commission, Irish Declaration of Independence, Hibernian Rifles, Phoenix Park Murders, Irish Reform Act 1832, Senate of Southern Ireland, Asgard, Curragh Incident, Bureau of Military History, Irish Coercion Act, Tenant Right League, The Monks of the Screw, Star of the Sea, Parliament of Southern Ireland, Home Rule League, Doolough Tragedy, The Burning of Cork, Repeal Association, German Plot (Ireland, May 1918), 1916-1921 Club, Hungry Hill, Russellite Unionist, Central Board, Congested Districts Board for Ireland, John Dooley Reigh, 86th Regiment of Foot, Trinity, Ballinglass Incident, Treaty Debates, Under-Secretary for Ireland, Irish American Cultural Institute, Cuba Five, Liberal Repealer, Redemption, Loyalist Anti-Repeal Union, Home Government Association. Excerpt: The Great Famine (Irish: , IPA: , the Great Hunger; the Irish Potato Famine ;, , the Bad Life) was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 during which the island's population dropped by 20 to 25 percent. Approximately one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland. The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland where a third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate. The famine was a watershed in the history of Ireland. Its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political and cultural landscape. For both the native Irish and those in the resulting diaspora, the famine entered folk memory and became a rallying point for various nationalist movements. Modern histo...