The Irish Famine is unique in a few key ways. The fact that Ireland is a western European nation makes the famine, the decrease in population; extreme poverty and dependence on one crop just an Irish thing. The anger then that was in the hearts of all Irish towards the British was there because you ask yourself, ‘How can a people have this happen in 19th century Europe?’ Many believe the British had done so purposely as a way to exterminate the Irish as a race. This of course was never officially true.

It is sad that the famine happened the way it did because unfortunately it placed in the hearts of most Irish a hatred for the British that still runs to this day. The fact that the British prime minister wrote a story of the Famine and had it end in 1847 demonstrates this point. The British did help their neighbor, but not enough and ended it too early.

Immigration had always been a part of Iri

Direct trips to America or Canada from Ireland were rare. Most of the time, the poor peasants had to first travel to the large industrial cities of Britain to make enough money to then make the trans-Atlantic to the Americas. The British of course did not like this new influx of poor Irish, and did their best to ship them back to Ireland and drop them off of the shore. In a way, these feelings of resentment towards the Irish ran true also in America.

It is often said that the Famine was a cleansing event that was needed to help Ireland evolve to the next level of agriculture and economy. However not all the people of Ireland experienced an increase of wealth or political power after the famine. In the west, most people were still living the subsistence farming lifestyle around the potato.

The American Irish were to play a large role in the future of the Irish nation, setting up the secret societies that had been in Ireland but did not have to be secret in America. The Fenians, for example was an Irish nationalist group that had planned to go back to Ireland and lead a armed revolution in 1865. These plans fell through however, but the importance of the Fenians should not be overlooked. They disappeared off the forefront but never completely went away, until the 1920’s when again nationalism was on the move in Ireland.

Slowly but surely however, the majority which were these poor catholic Irish, realized the power that was deserved of the majori

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