Risings in Ireland : They are Suppressed
Above : Threat Of Irish Fenians
Archive for The Famine
Tide of Emigration
Above : The Emigrant Prepare To Leave
By the closing months of 1847 the distress had greatly lessened. The harvest was a very good one, and, before the end of the year, the famine might be regarded as over. Its effects, however, long remained. Results of the Famine.—The classes which had been the employers of labour had been greatly impoverished. The smaller farmers h id been obliged to sell their live-stock, their implements, often even their seed-corn.
The Poverty In Ireland and The Sufferings of the People
Above : Picture Of Poverty At The Time
It has already been mentioned that during the earlier part of the nineteenth century a large proportion of the Irish people lived habitually on the verge of destitution. The food of about one-third of the population was almost exclusively potatoes, with which the better-off drank milk.
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