Number died Famine

madramor

Any body know

1)The number of people who died in the irish potato famine?(.5 - 1.5 million)
2)The number of people who emigrated during the famine?(1 million)
3)Population of ireland before the famine?(6.5 million)
i heard

or
links to sites with this info?

Esel

Too lazy to search for you, but I know its on the internet, and Google knows the internet pretty well.

madramor

yea lots of different answers

looking for anybody who knows Offical Irish Government/English Governemnt figures with links to said

Capt'n Midnight

madramor wrote:

Any body know

1)The number of people who died in the irish potato famine?(.5 - 1.5 million)
2)The number of people who emigrated during the famine?(1 million)
3)Population of ireland before the famine?(6.5 million)
i heard

or
links to sites with this info?

3) 8 million IIRC

unkel

The numbers that stuck with me (could be wrong of course) are:

Population before famine: 8 million
Died: 1 million
Emigrated: 1 million

The average poor man's diet before the famine consisted of 11 (large) potatoes and 3 pints of milk a day :eek:

Hagar

IIRC it was actually buttermilk which was even less nutritious.

madramor

1841 population N&S 8,177,800 (republic 6.5)
1851 population N&S 6,554,100 (republic 5.1)

1,623,700 drop

funktastic

There's still a historical debate on the issue of how many people actually died during the famine. the 1841 census gave roughly 8.2 m population for Ireland, but historians debate over the stats- general consensus is around 800,000-to near 1 million. Daly presented a figure of 500,000 about twenty years back but was castigated for doing so.