Legacy Of The Great Irish Famine
The Legacy of the Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad Life) follows a period of Irish history between 1845 and 1852 during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent.
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 historians regard it as a dividing line in the Irish historical narrative, referring to the preceding period of Irish history as "pre-Famine."
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