THE FAMINE

COFFIN SHIPS

• The coffin ships were used for emigration.
• 250,000 people emigrated in 1847.
• There was dirty food and water which left people with diseases.

potato blight

• before the potato blight Irish people ate up to 70 potato’s per day.
• During the blight people had to go to soup kitchens because the potato’s had a diseases .

DONATION

• In 1847 Queen Victoria donated £2000
• (THANK YOU QUEEN)!