response: Reportedly about one million people died.
history: I love Ireland! My husband and I went there on our Honeymoon! We flew into the Shannon Airport, it was so easy! How neat! Ireland is found in the North Atlantic, did you know that? Yeah, the island is two different countries. There's actually a proposition called United Ireland to make the whole island a single sovereign state. Oh, interesting. I know a lot of Irish made it to America over the years. A little more than 10%, or about 33 million Americans, say they have Irish ancestry, as of 2013. Do you know how many Irish people died in the great potato famine?
knowledge: During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.