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Show Many Irish People DiedWhen Died Dicd DiedWhen When Potato Crop FailedYear Failed FailedYear Year after Jear year ear , beginning nbout about about1840 1840 , the potato pot'Ito potIto ' crops of Iurope Europe Iuropeand Europeand . : Curopeand and North America sulTcred suffered terrlbJe terrible terrlbJeo terriblelosses terriblelooses losses ] o ses bo So o discouraged iltd dId the grow growers growers growcrs ers of New York state become beconw th'lt thlt that th'lteach thateach tinteach ' each fi five e ye 11 ir it " census ctnsus sho\ sho showed shoed , \ ed a drop dropin dropIn dropIn in production till Ull tlll onl only on ) O,147a94 O147a94 O,147a94bushels 6,147 6147 C,147.o94bushels C147.o94bushels C147o94bushels C,147.o94bushelsvcro , . , 04 04bushels bushels " \vcro vcro "ere ere were \ grown In lSGOWorst 1SGOWorst 1SGO lSGO 1SGOWorst Worst of aU all-was all was "was was " - - the tenlble terrible tl'm tlm ' lble Irishfamine Irish IrishfamIne Irishfamine famIne of 1843 184:5 1845 : , 1840 184G and nnd 1817 De- De Be- Be Defore Before Be Before - - fore potatoes became generally used usedfor usedfor usedfor for food In ! Ireland reland tuc the population popuJation was estimated at about 850,000 850000 , In IE1G50 10 1650 ( ; : ; By 1845 It had Incrensed Incre'1sed Incre1sed increased ' to tc82950G1 829.3 8293 8215061 . 061 \ More l\Iore l Iore than tlum 4 per cent of ofthe ofthe olthe the land of Ireland ' was 'vas vas planted to topotatoes topotatoes tcpotatoes potatoes So complete and disastrous disastrous"as disastrouswas disastrous\\as disastrous as "as as was " \ \ the tine loss Joss of the potato crop cropby cropby cropby by blight bllght and rot , and so great was wasthe \ as asthe asthe the dependence of the tbe Irish peOIlc people peOIlcupon peopleupon peopleupon ) upon their tbeJr staff starr of life llCe that be beeel1 between between200 \\eel1 eel1 \ \ 200 : ! OO 000 and 800000 500 X00 000 persons perished perishedof of starvation or of or diseases dselses ! : brotl brought broughton ht hten en on by InsufIIclcnt Insumclent lnsufilcient food Litenllymillions Llter'll1y Llterll1y Llterally Llter'll1ymHllons Llterallymillions ' mHllons millions of the Irish race emlgr'lfed emlgrlfed emlgrued emlgr'lfedtill emlgruedtill ernlgritedtill ' till tlie the popuTitIon popuhtlon population fell to about abou ! half halfthat halfthat halfthat that In 184Hur'll 1845-Rural 1845 Rural 184 ' ; ' ) -Hur'll Hur'll Hurll - Kuril ' New Ne\\ Ne Ness Neworkcr Neorl.er \ \ \orkcr orkcr \ . orl.er orler orier . |
