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The Highland Potato Famine ( Scottish Gaelic: Gaiseadh a' bhuntàta) was a period of 19th-century Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856) over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Scottish Highlands ( Gàidhealtachd) saw their potato crop (upon which they had become over-reliant) repeatedly devastated ...
This is the area that was most reliant on the potato, and therefore severely hit by the Highland Potato Famine. The census of 1841 recorded 167,283 people living in the crofting region (as per T. M. Devine's definition of the term), whilst the "farming" south and east Highlands contained 121,224 people. [12]: 1-12
The European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties. While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly affected were the Scottish Highlands, with the Highland Potato Famine and ...
Seven ill years. The Seven Ill Years, also known as the Seven Lean Years ( Scottish Gaelic: seachd bliadhna gorta ), is the term used for a period of widespread and prolonged famine in Scotland during the 1690s, named after the biblical famine in Egypt predicted by Joseph in the Book of Genesis. [1] Estimates suggest between 5 and 15% of the ...
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger ( Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ] ), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history ...
The Highland and Island Emigration Society was a charitable society formed to promote and assist emigration as a solution to the Highland Potato Famine . Between 1852 and 1857, it assisted the passage of around 5,000 emigrants from Scotland to Australia. The Society's work was both praised for providing a solution to the famine in Scotland, and ...
Highland Potato Famine: Scotland: 1845–1849: Great Famine in Ireland killed more than 600,000 out of over 10 million people inhabiting Ireland. Between 1.5–2 million people forced to emigrate [71] Ireland: 600 000 to over 1500000 that emigrated + 1846: Famine led to the peasant revolt known as "Maria da Fonte" in the north of Portugal ...
The Great Famine ( An Gorta Mór) The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 ( Irish: Bliain an Áir, meaning the Year of Slaughter) in the Kingdom of Ireland, is estimated to have killed between 13% and 20% of the 1740 population of 2.4 million people, which was a proportionately greater loss than during the Great Famine of 1845–1852. [1] [2] [3]