The city was a destination for thousands of Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Famine in the 1840s ; housing for them was developed south of South Street, and was later occupied by succeeding immigrants.

His father's family was Irish and in about 1850, following the Great Irish Famine, had emigrated to the US, first to Massachusetts and later to California.

While Irish politics in the 1820s to 1840s had been dominated by the Catholic Emancipation and " Repeal " movements under Daniel O ' Connell, it was not until the 1880s under Charles Stewart Parnell, nearly forty years after the Famine, that a major Irish nationalist political movement, the Home Rule League ( later known as the ' Parliamentary Party ') appeared.

Although some believed the myth that Queen Victoria ( known in Ireland in later decades as the " Famine Queen ") had only donated a miserly £ 5 to famine relief, in fact the sum was £ 2, 000, the equivalent of £ 61, 000 today, from her personal resources.

Down until the Great Famine of the 1840s, however, and even later, Irish was still used over large areas of the south-west, the west and the north-west.

" It was not until more than a century later, following the surge in Irish immigration after the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s, that the descendants of the Protestant Irish began to refer to themselves as " Scotch-Irish " to distinguish them from the predominantly Catholic, and largely destitute, wave of immigrants from Ireland in that era.

The surname was introduced to Ulster by Scottish settlers during the plantation of the province and later many McCunns emigrated during the Irish Potato Famine.

For many years people lived in the village and then in 1845 Famine struck in Achill as it did in the rest of Ireland.

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

Famine struck North Korea in the mid-1990s, set off by unprecedented floods.

From 1820 to 1860, 1, 956, 557 Irish arrived, 75 % of these after the Great Irish Famine ( or The Great Hunger, ) of 1845 – 1852, struck.

Famine scholar Alex de Waal observes that while the famine that struck the country in the mid-1980s is usually ascribed to drought, " closer investigation shows that widespread drought occurred only some months after the famine was already under way.

Then disaster struck when the potato crop failed and the Great Irish Famine resulted.

The Great Famine of 1315 – 1317 ( occasionally dated 1315 – 1322 ) was the first of a series of large scale crises that struck Northern Europe early in the fourteenth century.

Finally, the Great Famine would have consequences for future events in the fourteenth century such as the Black Death when an already weakened population would be struck again.

However, Lord Halifax was soon expressing concern that the repression was going too far: " so many People are directly or indirectly concerned in these illegal Practices and so many have been seized on Information or Suspicion, that in several Places, the Majority of the Inhabitants have been struck with the utmost Consternation, and have fled to the Mountains, insomuch that at this Season, from the almost general Flight of the labouring Hands, a Famine is, not without Reason, apprehended .".

The Highland Potato Famine was a famine caused by potato blight that struck the Scottish Highlands in the 1840s.

* " The Famine in Germany ", Published by U. S. Govt.

The Great Famine was restricted to Northern Europe, including the British Isles, northern France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Germany, and western Poland.

It is a lament by a mother for a child she buries there during Aimsir an Drochshaoil (‘ The Time of the Bad Life ’-the Famine ).

Hayes ' Irish Catholic maternal grandparents immigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine ; her mother was a great-niece of Irish singer Catherine Hayes.

Through his mother he is a sixth generation Oregonian and his father's family emigrated from Ireland during the Irish Potato Famine.

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 ).

Douglass set sail on the Cambria for Liverpool on August 16, 1845, and arrived in Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine was beginning.

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

Sanger's father was born in Ireland and his parents and he emigrated to Canada when he was a child due to the Potato Famine.

The class of cottiers or farm labourers was virtually wiped out in what became known in Britain as ' The Irish Potato Famine ' and in Ireland as the Great Hunger.

The persistently cold, wet weather caused great hardship, was primarily responsible for the Great Famine of 1315 – 1317, and strongly contributed to the weakened immunity and malnutrition leading up to the Black Death ( 1348 – 1350 ).

* The Great Chinese Famine was a direct cause of the death of tens of millions of Chinese peasants between 1959 and 1962.

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.

He was the only child of Michael and Lillian Daley, whose families had both arrived from the Old Parish area, near Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland during the Great Famine.

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

County Donegal was one of the worst affected parts of Ulster during the Great Famine of the late 1840s in Ireland.

The family was originally from County Offaly, Ireland until the Cromwell invasion, then left County Cork in the 1850s just after the Potato Famine.

One of the proportionally largest historical famines was the Bengal Famine of 1770 in the lower Gangetic plain of East India Company ruled North East India.

Few historians have argued that the Great Irish Famine was not caused by the shortage of food, given that Ireland was producing enough food to feed its eight million people, but by the British government's choice to leave open the ports, as they are normally close during Irish crop blights.

During the 1973 Wollo Famine in Ethiopia, food was shipped out of Wollo to the capital city of Addis Ababa, where it could command higher prices.

Thus the 1867 – 68 famine under the Tongzhi Restoration was successfully relieved but the Great North China Famine of 1877 – 78, caused by drought across northern China, was a catastrophe.

Leitrim was first hit by the recession caused by the mechanisation of linen weaving in the 1830s and its 155, 000 residents ( as of the 1841 census ) were ravaged by the Great Famine and the population dropped to 112, 000 by 1851.

In 2010 Britain failed to send a diplomatic representative to the opening of the National Famine Commemoration, while 14 other nations did.

Some critics claim that Ireland did not influence Trollope as much as his experience in England, and that the society in Ireland harmed him as a writer, especially since Ireland was experiencing the Great Famine during his time there.

His experiences during the Great Famine led him to move from being an Irish unionist and an Orangeman to supporting a federal political system for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that would give Ireland a greater degree of self-rule.

" Dan Gardner, among others, has criticized him for endorsing the strategies to avoid the worst effects of famine that William and Paul Paddock proposed in their book Famine 1975!

Grey's first tenure at the Home Office notably saw him deal with relief efforts to the victims of the Irish Potato Famine and trying to subdue the Irish rebellion of 1848.

The promotion emboldened him to organise a ' seizure of crops ' campaign in Jalpaiguri during the Great Famine of 1943, more or less successfully.

His famous painting " Study of a Crow " ( Ink Wash ) in the collection of Professor Ahmed Ali is listed in the book ' Arts in Pakistan " by Jalaluddin Ahmed, 1952, including an exclusive monologue on him published by FOMMA, Karachi, along with his many Famine Series paintings of 1943.