Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes have been played for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, the Caucasus, around the Persian Gulf and in Northern Africa.

Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.

Millions of Irish diaspora | Irish left Ireland for Canada and U. S. following the Great Famine ( Ireland ) | Great Famine in the 1840s.

British settlement of the Maritimes, as the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island came to be known, accelerated throughout the late 18th century and into the 19th century with significant immigration to the region as a result of Scottish migrants displaced by the Highland Clearances and Irish escaping the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ).

In the 19th century, as Ireland was facing the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ), crochet lace work was introduced as a form of famine relief ( the production of crocheted lace being an alternative way of making money for impoverished Irish workers ).

Since the beginning of Norman rule in the 12th century, the city has functioned as the capital in varying geopolitical entities: Lordship of Ireland ( 1171 – 1541 ), Kingdom of Ireland ( 1541 – 1800 ), island as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801 – 1922 ), and the Irish Republic ( 1919 – 1922 ).

A specific 19th century example is the Irish diaspora, beginning mid-19th century and brought about by An Gorta Mór or " The Great Hunger " of the Irish Famine.

The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, abolishing the Irish Parliament and giving Ireland representation at Westminster.

Inexpensive fortified wines, such as Thunderbird and Wild Irish Rose, became popular during the Great Depression for their relatively high alcohol content.

Perhaps the most outstanding example of this genre is Leabhar na nGenealach / The Great Book of Irish Genealogies, by Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh ( d. 1671 ), published in 2004.

Furthermore, 63 members of Parliament elected in 1852, were members of the " Irish Brigade ," who voted with the Peelites and the Whigs for the repeal of the Corn Laws because they sought an end the Great Irish Famine by means of cheaper wheat and bread prices for the poor and middle classes in Ireland.

It first appeared on the Great Seal of the Irish Free State, which in turn was replaced by the coat of arms, the Irish Presidential Standard and the Presidential Seal in the 1937 Constitution of Ireland.

The 2001 UK Census states that 869, 093 people born in Ireland are living in Great Britain, with over 10 % of the population ( over 6 million ) being of Irish descent.

The term has also been used to taunt non-Irish-born players who choose to play for the Republic of Ireland national football team, fans of Irish teams, who are members of supporters clubs outside of Ireland, and other Irish individuals living in Great Britain.

There have been Irish settlers in New Brunswick since at least the late 18th century, but during the peak of the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1847 ), thousands of Irish emigrated through Partridge Island in the port of Saint John.

Immediately, Peel hoped that the repeal of the tariff on wheat ( the Corn Laws ) and the resultant influx of cheaper wheat into Britain would remedy the suffering caused by the Great Famine in Ireland due to the successive failure of potato crops.

In the years 1315 to 1317, a catastrophic famine, known as the Great Famine, struck much of northwest Europe.

During Europe's Great Famine of 1315 – 1317 there were many reports of cannibalism among the starving populations.

Hungry Ghosts: China's Secret Famine ( 1996 ), on the " Great Leap Forward " of 1950s

A rigid belief in laissez-faire guided the government response in 1846 – 1849 to the Great Famine in Ireland, during which an estimated 1. 5 million people died.

* 1315 – 1317: The Great Famine of 1315 – 1317 in Northern Europe

The Great Famine of 1315 – 1317 was the first crisis that would strike Europe in the 14th century.

During the British Raj, famines in India, often attributed to failed government policies, were some of the worst ever recorded, including the Great Famine of 1876 – 78 in which 6. 1 million to 10. 3 million people died and the Indian famine of 1899 – 1900 in which 1. 25 to 10 million people died.

The Great Famine of Ireland during the 1840s saw a significant number of people flee from the island to all over the world.

This is largely due to the flow of emigrants from Ireland during The Great Famine of 1845 – 1849.

Before the Great Hunger (" Irish Potato Famine "), in which over a million died and more emigrated, there had been the Penal Laws which had already resulted in significant emigration from Ireland.

The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America ( 1999 )

However this changed dramatically with the Great Famine of the mid-19th century, which created conditions of mass starvation and emigration.

Severe starvation during the Great Chinese Famine, mass suicide as a result of the Three-anti / five-anti campaigns, and political persecution during both the Anti-Rightist Movement and struggle sessions all resulted from these programs.

In a quest for family roots, he attempted to trace his great grandmother – Brita Gallagher – who set sail from Ireland 150 years ago during the Great Famine ( 1845 – 1849 ), bound for a new life in Burlington, New Jersey.

In 1845, a plant disease known as late blight, caused by the fungus-like oomycete Phytophthora infestans, spread rapidly through the poorer communities of western Ireland, resulting in the crop failures that led to the Great Irish Famine.

Especially the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1849 ) was severe and caused a quarter of Ireland's population to die or emigrate to the United States, Canada and Australia.

This radical break with Conservative protectionism was triggered by the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1849 ).

U. S. Army officer John C. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845.

In 1845, Fuller published The Great Lawsuit, asking women to claim themselves as self-dependent.

The situation changed during late 1845 with poor harvests and the Great Famine in Ireland ; Britain experienced scarcity and Ireland starvation.

Benton pushed appropriations through Congress for national surveys of the Oregon Trail ( 1842 ), the Oregon Territory ( 1844 ), the Great Basin, and Sierra Mountains to California ( 1845 ).

As a result, when the potato crop failed in 1845, Kerry was very hard hit by the Great Irish Famine of 1845 – 49.

The first excavations for the Great Stone Dam to harness the Merrimack River's water power, were done on August 1st, 1845.

Dymock was served by the Hereford & Gloucester Canal, opened in 1845 ; this closed in 1881 and the section between Ledbury and Gloucester converted into a railway line, a branch line of the Great Western Railway, though a stretch between Dymock and Newent was by-passed as it was decided not to take the line through the 2, 192 yard Oxenhall Tunnel.

; including the causal agent of the Great Irish Famine ( 1845 – 1849 )

The railway company was then taken over by the Great Western Railway, who built a new tunnel at Sapperton, and opened the railway to Gloucester in 1845.

The Great Famine in Ireland in 1845 led to the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.

The Irish Famine of 1740 – 1741 (, meaning the Year of Slaughter ) in the Kingdom of Ireland was perhaps of similar magnitude to the better-known Great Famine of 1845 – 1852.

The Legacy of the Great Famine ( or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad Life ) follows a period of Irish history between 1845 and 1852 during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent.

* Wolff, Joshua D., “‘ The Great Monopoly ’: Western Union and the American Telegraph, 1845 – 1893 ” ( PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 2008 ).

The current Library was built as part of the complex containing the Great Hall, and was finished in 1845 ; at this point it was 80 feet long, 40 feet wide and 44 feet high.

From 1843 to 1845 he issued the dramas Saul und David ( 1843 ), Herodes der Große (" Herodes the Great ") ( 1844 ), Kaiser Heinrich IV ( 1845 ) and Christofero Colombo ( 1845 ), all of which are greatly inferior to the work to which he owes his place in German literature.