The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. Hundreds of thousands of emigrants sailed for North America in small, ill-equipped, unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus. The Irish who managed to make it alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work. They crowded into cellars, begged, and took ...
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The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. Within five years, one million people died of starvation. Hundreds of thousands of emigrants sailed for North America in small, ill-equipped, unsanitary ships. Some ships never arrived; those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus. The Irish who managed to make it alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work. They crowded into cellars, begged, and took whatever jobs they could get. Epidemics, riots and chaos followed in their wake.
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