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Why did so many people perish in Ireland in the years ? ( Republican and Reform: Anglo-Irish Relations )

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History:frelond

Why did so mqnypeopleperishin frelondin the yeorst845-52?

Up to the presentdoy,there still remoinso hugedebotegoingon os to
whyso mqnypeopleperishedin frelondin the yeqrs1845-53.Mony
reosonshod beenput forword by historionsexploining why so monypeople
hodperished.Thisguestionmqyseemobvious, but it's octuollyguitehord
qnswer
to giveo stroightforword becouse if we lookcloselyof the fqcts
ondtry to understond whqtlife woslikein frelondbockin the 19th
century,thenwe canseethot the Greal Fominewosn'tthe moinneqson
whyso monypeopleperishedin the yeors1845-53.

We conorguethot oneof the moinreosonswosbecousethe mojorityof
the populotionhod 5ecometoo over dependenton Potqtoqs it woso
cruciolport of o nutritiousdiet qndqlsobecouse it conbe eosilygrownos
it conwithstondhorshweothersduringthe winterseqson. Whenthe
PototoBlightfirst oppeored int845,veryf ew knewwhotit wos,whenq
scientificcommission hqd6eenoppointed in frelondto investigatethe
couseof the 4isegse, they couldnot f indthe cquseof this becouse they
did not hoveodvonced 1g.h^ologyhowever, they estimotedthot just under
holf of the pototocrophodbeenlost,but it didn'treollyoff ect the
mojorityof the populotion becouse the crop yieldfor thqt yeqr wqslorger
thonusuol,therefore they werenot in the positionto be worriedor
concerned oboutthe situotion,mostpeopleqssumed thot it wouldgo
owoy,they did not treot this os o worningsign,fhereforethey did not
r ecognisethe conseguences.

Tn 1846,the reoppearance of the pototoblightsoonbecomeo threot to
the frish becquseit wosspreoding ropidlyocrossthe notion.The oreosin
the west wereporticulorlymost off ectedbecquseit wqsthe poorest
eree,'thereforethe peoplelivingin the west hod ahigherchonceof dying
guickerof sforvqfiononddiseqses becqusethey werepoor.

As it soonbecomeevidentthot the wholepopulotion hqd becomesffected
by the fqmine,pressurehqd beenplocedon the government to designo
relief schemeto helpout the poor.AlthoughEnglond woscrsuperpower
qt
country the time,the Englishwerevery reluctontin helpingthe frish
becousethey f elt they hodno needto tqke thot responsibility ondot the
sometime monyEnglishpeoplesqwthe situotionthroughreligiouseyes:
they believedthot it wqso punishment from God condemning the frish
f or beinglozy,drinkingoll the time,beingf ilthy, workingon the Sobboth
doy,creotingviolenceqnddisorder,thereforethe frish shouldblome

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