Some text are almost cut due too tight marginĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:02:42 Boxid IA1784205 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier The Great Hunger is a heartbreaking story of suffering, insensitivity, and blundering stupidity yet it is also an epic tale of courage, dignity and despite all odds, a hardly supportable optimism Epidemics, riots and chaos followed in their wake, so that Irish immigrants came to be regarded as a danger to the health of the community and a burden on society. They crowded into dark, dirty cellars begged in the streets and took whatever employment they could get at wages which no American would accept. The Irish who managed to reach the United States alive had little or no money and were often too weak to work.

Some ships never arrived those that did carried passengers already infected with and often dying of typhus. Most emigrant ships were small, ill-equipped, dangerously unsanitary, and often unseaworthy. Within five years, one million people died of starvation emigrants by the hundreds of thousands sailed for America and Canada. The Great Hunger is the story of one of the worst disasters in world history: the Irish potato famine of the 1840s.

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