Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . nd Oude. THE IRISH FAMINE. Sir Robert Peels later years of ofifice as Prime Minister of England(1845-6) were made unhappy by a domestic calamity of appalling vio-lence—the the dreadful potato famine in Ireland. In other countries thecomplete destruction of the potato crop by blight in two successive ye
Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . nd Oude. THE IRISH FAMINE. Sir Robert Peels later years of ofifice as Prime Minister of England(1845-6) were made unhappy by a domestic calamity of appalling vio-lence—the the dreadful potato famine in Ireland. In other countries thecomplete destruction of the potato crop by blight in two successive yearswould have caused nothing more than serious inconvenience. But inIreland half the nation depended on the root. The population had beenmultiplying with great rapidity ; in thirty years it had risen from five toeight millions, and this not owing to flourishing trade or manufactures,or to any great increase in the amount of land cultivated. The landlordshad been permitting their tenants to cut up their farms into smaller andsmaller patches, till an average holding did not sufiice to support itsoccupier, who had to make up the deficit by seeking harvest work inEngland during the summer. Several millions of people were living on WtK^^KISf^ ^^^^H|HHQ|0Vv- 6 HK^ §^^^t m n r 1 fH^H^^^i r ^. n ?f) ?n X O a-,I STORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS. 291 these wretched patches of ground, always on the edge of starvation, andsustained only by their potatoes. On such an indigent population twoyears of blight brought absolute famine. Before the disaster was fullyrealized thousands had perished from actual hunger, or from the feversand dysentery following bad and insufficient food. The workhouses werecrammed till they could hold no more, and out-door relief did not yetexist in Ireland. Far too late the Government began to establish publicsoup-kitchens, and pour in food of all kinds. But it was long beforerelief could penetrate to out-of-the-way districts, and the famine wasprolonged for many months
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