An old engraving of a Catholic priest, Father Mathew, comforting a poverty-stricken family during in the Great Famine in Ireland in 1845. It is from a Victorian history book of The Great Famine ( Great Hunger, the Famine or Irish Potato Famine) was a period of crop failure that led to starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852. During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million more fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20–25%. Pope Pius IX appealing to Catholics throughout the world to collect funds to help the Irish
An old engraving of a Catholic priest, Father Mathew, comforting a poverty-stricken family during in the Great Famine in Ireland in 1845. It is from a Victorian history book of The Great Famine ( Great Hunger, the Famine or Irish Potato Famine) was a period of crop failure that led to starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852. During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million more fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20–25% (in some towns, populations fell as much as 67%) between 1841 and 1871. Between 1845 and 1855, at least million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also on steamboats and barques – one of the greatest exoduses in history. At the beginning of 1847 Pope Pius IX appealing to Catholics throughout the world to collect funds to help the Irish.
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