Many historians believe that the Famine (1 845-1852) known as The Great Hunger or An Gorta Mor in Irish\, is the defi ning event in all of Irish history. While this claim may be debatable\, th ere can be no doubt that the Famine had profound effects on Ireland\, Brit ain and the United States. When the potato blight struck in 1845\, the pop ulation of Ireland was over 8 million. By the time the Famine &ldquo\;ende d&rdquo\; \;seven years later\, the population was about 5 million\, w ith parts of the west of Ireland nearly totally depopulated. Of the three million\, over a million died and the rest emigrated to England\, America\ , Australia\, New Zealand\, Canada and many other nations around the world . \; The Potato Famine has been included in the New Jersey State curri culum on genocide and Holocaust because some see a clear record of governm ent complicity in this tragedy.
\nThis program seeks to explore the causes of the Famine\, to discover why hundreds of thousands starved while tons of food was exported to England and Europe\, to look at the long-ran ge impact of the Famine on Ireland and America\, and to engage the profoun d question of whether or not this horrible event can be properly classifie d as genocide as defined in the modern period. \;
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