アイルランドの人口は1841年の国勢調査で800万人以上をピークに達しましたが、ジャガイモ飢饉の長期的影響から回復することはありませんでした。半世紀にわたって人口は400万人にとどまり、飢饉からほぼ2世紀を経た現在でも720万人と、完全な回復には至っていません。
アイルランド人口、大飢饉で激減！800万人から400万人へ…200年経っても回復せず
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Note though that most didn’t die. While many did – and that’s horrible. Most of that population decline was from emigration, primarily to North America.
Emigration became an intrinsic part of Irish life before independence, especially from the Famine onwards.
In the 1600s, approximately 25,000 Irish Catholics left – some were forced to move, others left voluntarily – for the Caribbean and Virginia, while from the 1680s onwards Irish Quakers and Protestant Dissenters began to depart for Atlantic shores.[1] Sizeable Presbyterian emigration from Ireland’s northern Ulster province took place from the 1710s onwards, alongside smaller Anglican Protestant and Catholic emigration from Ulster and the southern Munster province.[2] This pattern continued until the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1814. Ireland had largely benefited from price rises associated with war on the European Continent but duly suffered from the drop in export price levels following Waterloo. From 1815 to the start of the Great Irish Famine (1846-1852), between 800,000 and 1 million Irish sailed for North America with roughly half settling in Canada and the other half in the United States.[3]
Regularly forgotten is the fact that it was only from the early 1830s onwards that annual departures by Catholics began to exceed those of Dissenters and Anglicans combined.[4] Irish Presbyterian and Anglican migrants who moved to America in the first half of the nineteenth century felt little animosity from locals because of their limited numbers and, in the case of the Irish, their religion. Thereafter, Catholics greatly outnumbered Protestants. The successful development of the linen industry in north-east of the country throughout the nineteenth century meant that Ulster became a major player in the British industrial revolution. This led to many people moved from the surrounding Ulster countryside to Belfast as the century progressed. The lack of industrialisation elsewhere in Ireland meant that most people living in rural areas went to the urban centres across the Atlantic and the Irish Sea to find employment.
For many Irish people, the Famine was the final ultimatum before deciding to leave Ireland.[5] Of the 1.8 million who arrived in the United States in 1845-55, many were much poorer than those that had gone before them; as the fact that almost one third of the new arrivals were from the poorer Irish speaking areas suggests.[6] The emigration of so many during the Famine led to the establishment of huge Irish communities abroad, particularly in the United States – the destination of choice for the vast majority. These vast networks helped to facilitate millions of more Irish to emigrate in the decades following the Famine. To give an indication of the colossal nature of Irish emigration, consider that roughly one in two people born in Ireland in the nineteenth century emigrated.[7] In the late nineteenth century, nearly as many people born in Ireland lived outside the country as lived in it.[8] No other European country contributed as many emigrants per capita to the New World during the so-called ‘age of mass migration’ between the mid-nineteenth century and the start of the First World War as Ireland.[9]
Irial Glynn, Dec. 2012
https://www.ucc.ie/en/emigre/history/
What is especially notable is the shift of the population, from west to East and from rural to urban areas. Even if the island of Ireland regains its pre-Famine total population, there are many counties with even now only a fraction of their previous population. They will never recover.
Post-genocide. FTFY. There was no famine. It was a manufacture genocide as the British government exported all of their non-potato crops while the blight killed off their potato crops.
Petition to rebrand “potato famine” as “English genocide.”
It wasn’t a famine. It was a genocide. Ireland had other food but the Irish people weren’t allowed to eat it.
They all moved to Boston.
The population also exploded massively in the lead-up to the Great Famine. It almost tripled in the span of a couple of generations (even with millions emigrating to other countries).
https://grantonline.com/grant-family-genealogy/Records/population/population-ireland-1100-200.jpg
And now most of the population growth is emigration into Ireland ??
Northern ireland is 2 million so there’s that, though the further emigration in the 20th century of about 1/6th of the population didnt help.
and if I recall correctly that was an imposed famine just like the one today in gaza?
Millions also immigrated to the US in the last 150 years
Given that Ireland has a below-replacement fertility, if its population recovers, it is going to have to come from immigration. One obvious group would be people who don’t live there but have the right to move there if they want (anyone with a British or European Union passport can choose to do so if they want). But I heard that it is a very expensive place to live in (and its GDP per capita is so wildly inflated because of foreign companies headquartered there for tax reasons, etc.)
Looks like ireland’s recovert plan involved a lot more potatoes and a lot less getting back to 8 mill.
The British didn’t stop being horrible to their non-British countrymen worldwide until recently. They have always ruled ruthlessly. Not genocidal, by definition, just sickeningly terrible.
You can call it a famine as it’s historically known as such. Or you might call it a genocide perpetrated by the British landowners.
And more Irish live in the US than Ireland from all the immigrants.
Ahh yes the famine or the royal faminly taking all of their food by force and leaving them with just shit potato’s. Let’s start calling it what it was and a famine wasn’t it ffs 200 years later I think the royals can take the L on this one they’ve earned it.
Shhhhh, don’t spread this info. It’s inconvenient.
Edit: Downvote away. Just proves my point.