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An 1849 depiction of Bridget O'Donnell and her two children during the famine. The chronology of the Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór [1] or An Drochshaol, lit. ' The Bad Life ') documents a period of Irish history between 29 November 1845 and 1852 [2] during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. [3]
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]
involved himself in several California and Hawai'i enterprises Leland Stanford: 1824–1893 Watervliet, New York, U.S. politician, railroad tycoon Elijah Steele: 1817–1883 New York, U.S. politician, attorney, jurist Levi Strauss: 1829–1902 Buttenheim, Kingdom of Bavaria, German Confederation (now Germany) German Confederation-born entrepreneur
New Orleans, Louisiana: has a plaque to the memory of the Great Famine on the monument for the New Basin Canal. New York, New York: the Irish Hunger Memorial is located in Battery Park City, a short walk west from the World Trade Center site. It looks like a sloping hillside with low stone walls and a roofless cabin on one side and a polished ...
Antisell was born in Dublin, 16 January 1817, the youngest son of Thomas Christopher Antisell KC (home circuit) and Margaret (née) Daly.Antisell attended the Dublin School of Medicine, the Apothecaries' Hall of Ireland, and the Royal College of Surgeons in London, graduating from the latter with an MD in November 1839.
In the period it has lasted since 1845, one million people have emigrated from Ireland. The Irish now make up a quarter of the population of Liverpool, Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore; and a half of Toronto. Tenant farmer Michael O'Regan emigrates from County Tipperary to London.
Irish writer Joseph O'Connor's 2004 novel Star of the Sea is set aboard a coffin ship and against the backdrop of the Irish famine. The book became an international bestseller. The BibleCode Sundays song "Mayo Moon" [16] describes a man preparing to leave for New York during the Great Famine of Ireland. It mentions the term "Coffin Ship" as it ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...