The

During the conditions

1830s the inside the
British workhouses
government were
began to set up horrendous.
workhouse for
Irish people to
work in

The
workhouses Families were
separated when The men had
were to work very
designed to they entered the
workhouse and long shifts Once you
help people breaking entered a
who could they would only
get to see each stones and workhouse
not help the woman you could
themselves other during
Sunday mass had to knit not leave
 In August
Soup 1847, more
kitchens A litre of soup than 3 million
were set would cost people were
up to help one penny but living on this
feed the if you could soup
poor not afford it
you would get
soup for free

The
Quakers By 1847 the
set up the government
first soup had set up
kitchen in many soup
Dublin kitchens all
over the
country
 For many
Irish people, Many Irish
the only way people
to escape travelled to
from the America and
famine was Canada
to emigrate

Over 70 million
Many Irish fled people worldwide
to Britain, but in are Irish
descendants. Emigrating
May 1847 the was not easy
British Many of these
people’s ancestors for the Irish,
government as the ships
encouraged would have fled
Ireland during the were often
them to return very
famine
dangerous
 Journeys on
coffin ships
took many
The conditions months
The ships
that Irish on the coffin
people used ships were
to emigrate very bad and
were known many died of
as coffin disease
ships

In 1847,
The term around 1 in 6
‘coffin ship’ passengers
came from on coffin
the amount ships died
of people while
who died travelling
aboard
 Number of Deaths
300000

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year during 200000

The Great
Famine
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1843 1844 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851 1852
 Many
families who
couldn’t pay
1847 was rent were
the worst Diseases being
year of the like typhus, evicted from
famine cholera and their homes
scurvy
spread
amongst the
population

Almost
250,000 Many people
people died from
died that these diseases
year in rather than
Ireland from
starvation
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