[DOC] [TLE] Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, 
and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes referred to, 
mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine, ... During the famine, 
approximately one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland
, causing... [DOC] [TLE] Great Famine | Irish history | Britannica.com [PAR] Jan 28, 2016 ... Famine that occurred in Ireland in 184549 when the potato crop failed in ... By 
the early 1840s almost half the Irish populationbut primarily the rural ... About 
one million people died from starvation or from typhus and other... [DOC] [TLE] After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved - History in the ... [PAR] May 21, 2013 ... ... identified the plant pathogen that devastated Ireland, killing 1 million people 
and ... greatest mysteries: What caused the devastating Irish potato famine of 
1845? ... sometime in the early 19th century before spreading to Europe in the 
1840s. ... became the sole subsistence food for one-third of the country. [DOC] [TLE] The History Place - Irish Potato Famine: Gone to America [PAR] Throughout the Famine years, nearly a million Irish arrived in the United States. ... 
With no one to help them, they immediately settled into the lowest rung of ... that 
became exclusively Irish near the Boston waterfront along Batterymarch and 
Broad .... down along with hundreds of Irish homes and a dozen immigrants killed
. [DOC] [TLE] BBC - History - British History in depth: The Irish Famine [PAR] Feb 17, 2011 ... A million people are said to have died of hunger in Ireland in the late 1840s, on ... 
Phototgraph showing potato blight - phytophthora infestans ... doubt that the Irish 
famine of the late 1840s, which killed nearly one-eighth of the ... if all the Irish 
grain exported in those years had been retained in the country. [DOC] [TLE] BRIA 26 2 The Potato Famine and Irish Immigration to America ... [PAR] The Potato Famine killed more than 1 million people in five years and generated 
great ... Even before the famine, Ireland was a country of extreme poverty. .... 
came close to being the largest single Christian denomination in the country. [DOC] [TLE] The The Irish Potato Famine, 1847 - EyeWitness to History [PAR] By 1840, fully 1/3 of Ireland's population was totally dependent on the potato for 
its ... people died as a result of the famine while over one million fled the country. 
... though several could be pointed out with the dead lying close to the living for... [DOC] [TLE] Next (Irish Potato Famine (18451849)) - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] However, by the 1840s, subdivision was increasingly found primarily among .... 
Some historians and statisticians suggest the death toll was in the region of ... In 
addition, in excess of 1 million Irish emigrated to the United States, Great ... As a 
result of the famine, many Irish families were forced to emigrate from their country
. [DOC] [TLE] Irish Potato Famine - American University [PAR] ... the Potato Famine, from 1845 to 1947, more than one million people died of ... 
disease that gripped Ireland, the Irish people became the country's greatest 
export. ... (25) The next day, the potatoes were "a wide waste of putrefaction 
giving off an ... In the 1840s, laissez-faire philosophy dominated the British 
economic policy. [DOC] [TLE] The Irish Potato Famine 1846-1850 - DoChara [PAR] Sep 17, 2008 ... Work was in short supply forcing labourers to travel the country in search of ... 
There was effectively no potato crop in 1845 and 1846 and although there was ... 
More than 1 million people died of starvation or disease  to put that in .... who 
returned to Ireland in the late 1840s to help with famine relief efforts? [DOC] [TLE] Ireland's population in the mid 1800's - Maps and Pictures [PAR] The Irish population in the years following the great famine. ... weather was 
unusually cold and dry leading to the death of livestock and the failure of ... The 
reason for this was the Great Famine that

Question: In the 1840s a potato famine killed close to 1 million in this country
Answer: Ireland