THE FAMINE

JUST BEFORE

• Just before the great famine began there were more than3 million small farmers,cottiers and laborers in Ireland 🇮🇪

WORKHOUSES

• Huge number of men,women and children were in these workhouses
• Children who entered these workhouses often never seen there parents again

BLIGHT

• Before the famine began there where people who eat 70 potatoes a day so they relied on potato’s
• The disease was called blight

END OF FAMINE

• The end of the famine was met with great relief for the Irish and many other countries
• Almost 240,000 people died and 200,000 emigrated it was a sad occasion in Irish history

CHARITY

• Charity organizations helped Ireland deal with this disease by donating food and supplies
• The Choctaw tribe helped Ireland tremendously

COFFIN SHIP

• These ships were called coffin ships because many people died on them
• If people on the ships didn’t die from starvation they often died from disease carried on the ships

LANDLORD

• Landlords often evicted people because they couldn’t pay rent

THE END

BY NATAN,ALEX AND HARLEY

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