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The only known photo from the Irish famine of the 1840s? [PICTURE]

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  • jeffiek, on 10/11/2007, -2/+86The crop failure was caused by the blight. The starvation was caused by politics. All during the period, food was being exported from Ireland.
  • heaintheavy, on 10/11/2007, -12/+84And the rich got fat, while the poor died. Shame on England.
  • Vitaliy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+62A family evicted by their landlords in Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine
    http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/Baker_00/2001_p4/baker_jw_p4/Eviction.jpeg

    An Irish woman evicted and made homelessduring the potato famine of 1846-50 [from Ireland archives]
    http://www.bemyastrologer.com/mcnamarahomeless.jpg

    Some pics on this page http://www.compleatseanbean.com/field.html

    Some here http://www.tourulster.com/genealogy.htm

    And here http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ireland_great_famine_of_1845.htm

    .. just a quick search on Google, I am sure that are _way_ more if you were to look into it. Also looks like there are tons of illustrations from the time period.
  • webcure, on 10/11/2007, -4/+63Spooky picture of suffering.
  • hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -1/+40"Ireland is in your hands, in your power. If you do not save her, she cannot save herself. I solemnly call upon you to recollect that I predict with the sincerest conviction that a quarter of her population will perish unless you come to her relief.
    Daniel O'Connell to the British House of Commons, 1847."
    http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/index.html
  • ripstuntz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+40There HAS to be another photo from this period/location, it would be almost impossible for there not to be.
  • maheshee11, on 10/11/2007, -7/+42It was due to potato blight caused by Phytophthora infestans. The famine was devastating, "There were twenty-four failures of the potato crop according to the Census of Ireland Commissioners in 1851."
  • heaintheavy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+26Nice attitude.
  • Gottschalk, on 10/11/2007, -4/+23I blame Big Potato.
  • spiffyfitz, on 10/11/2007, -4/+21Before I clicked I tried to remember the only picture I could associate with the Irish famine. Lo and behold this was the same image I saw in a textbook from 9 years ago.
  • sycsix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17@junkyarddawg
    What else would it be?
  • jokerthief, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17My, my, how Ireland has changed! It's now one of the wealthiest nations on earth.
  • opticrime, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16This wasn't just a rich-poor issue: The Popery Act served to take formerly well-off Irish families and decimate their landholdings. Within a few generations, large estates became tiny tenancies and the Irish were relegated to dependence on a single crop. As Jeffiek said earlier -- it was politics, not food shortages.
  • RareSaturn, on 10/11/2007, -10/+25British genocide.
  • PatoLucas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Pretty ironic that your screen name is "Advanced Soul" isn't it?
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17Yeah. Us countries that are just as dependent on three crops (corn, wheat, soy) are much better.
  • GeneralFailure0, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15That book was definitely set close to 100 years later.
  • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14You live in the information age. Why do you ask a question like that here instead of taking a few seconds to goggle it?
    http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/index.html

    Although I fully expect you to next ask why they didn't go to McDonalds instead...
  • satx, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18There weren't a lot of photographers back in the 1840s, bro, especially in poor ass Ireland. I'm surprised there was even this one.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+119/11 HAPPENED 5 YEARS AGO! GET OVER IT!
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16Bless 'em all, my people. God rest yer souls.
  • smallestmills, on 10/11/2007, -8/+19"Dad's drunk, we're hungry. Dad's drunk, we're hungry." blah blah blah
  • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Sadly capslock disease has no known cure.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Our economy IS reliant on our aggricultural output. Yeah we subsidize the industry, but what do you think would happen if something happened and all of our corn, wheat, and soy crops failed?
  • aukxsona, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13not he's not.
  • yndy, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13even if only the other pictures that the same photographer took... it's not like he said "well, there we go - we've got the one photo - we're done... let's head off to France for tea now..."
  • MatttK, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Potatoes were the main crop. Kill the main crop and the main source of food is gone. Then everyone starves.
  • appleann1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11The laugh's on you dawg, the story made the front page.
  • stonebear, on 10/11/2007, -6/+14World Olds?
  • ypSami, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7What a very, very stupid comment.
  • ThatGirlTasha, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7My great grandparents came here-actually to Canada then to Maine to get away from the famine but they wouldn't talk about it to my grandma. Incidentally, they didn't drink- neither did my grandma.
    I guess I make up for that.
  • ypSami, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Sucks to be a digger with no credibility in economics. Kind of pathetic really...
  • actorboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Whoa, kind of interesting read until you took that Christian turn at the end.
  • ypSami, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Yes, just like you ran out of conscientiousness and empathy when you posted that stupid comment.
  • CornStarch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6tourism doesn't make you Irish friend. I'm a Yank, and damn proud of it, but that doesn't mean I'm not an Irishman.
  • ChildeRoland420, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6One of those links is to a movie about the famine, not an actual picture. The genealogy one never says that it is a period picture.
  • aukxsona, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Hmm..ethanol would go sky high, food would go sky high, gas would also go sky high, bread would be hard to find, cattle feed would be higher and thus the meat markets would raise...infact inflationary pressures across the board having anything to do with those crops...(including shipping) would rise exponentially. Such is the case currently in the corn market as there isn't enough corn being produced to cover the legislative mandates for ethanol. Furthermore, Shipping would probably be disrupted or slowed to a trickle. Thus providing consumers with less choices, higher prices, scarcity, and the like...possible panic. Not to mention starvation...eventually.
  • ypSami, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6How daft can you be, really?
  • PatoLucas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I love this kind of comments, one more retard to block
  • ypSami, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Oh look, another stupid ass on Digg. Nobody can save you.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -16/+22Angelas Ashes read it.
  • actorboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5You need to spend more time on the internet.
  • osullish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Angelas Ashes has absolutely nothing to do with the famine! As an Irish man who has lived in Limerick for years, locals also consider Angelas ashes to be a load of fictional rubbish written by a cranky ex-pat! Half the incidents he claims are true couldn't have happened - the girl whom he claims he lost his virginity to died 3 years before he claimed they got it on! (Unless he was really kinky)
  • dcbrown07, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5That's not a stereotype or anything right?
  • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Pirates.
  • Aslan72, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5It's generations past, but isn't Ireland still feeling the effects in terms of population? When we were there in '01, the pop was aroun 4 Million, right? If I remember the statistic, it was around that the time of the famine. It's taken them a while to recover from it.
  • inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Most of the Irish in Canada are immigrants from the famine. Actually played a substantial role on the country's development.
  • ypSami, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Are you really so ignorant to believe that there is nothing to be learned still from the Irish famine? No story to be told?
  • yndy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6well, maybe by "the only known" the OP meant "the only one I know about since it's the only one on wikipedia" :P
    google is your friend!
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