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GCSE History · key term
The crisis in Ireland, usually dated 1845–1852, in which potato blight destroyed a major food crop, causing widespread hunger, disease, death and emigration.
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Paper 1
Revise: Irish migrationThe Great Famine of 1845–1852 transformed the scale and urgency of migration. From 1845, potato blight destroyed a crop on which many Irish people depended for their food. Losing the harvest could therefore mean losing the means to survive, rather than simply receiving a lower income.
Separate long-term migration for employment from the sudden increase caused by the Great Famine. Irish migration did not begin in 1845.
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