The Irish catastrophe Altogether, about a million people in Ireland are reliably estimated to have died of starvation and epidemic disease between 1846 and 1851, and some two million emigrated in a period of a little more than a decade (1845-55)
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Food prices in Ireland were beginning to rise, and potato prices had doubled by December, 1845 Meanwhile, the Irish grain crop was being exported to Britain (
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