Famine 1845 facts
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Irish goodbye" refers to a person ducking out of a party, social gathering or very bad date without bidding farewell. The phrase is attributed to the Potato Famine of 1845-1852, when many Irish fled their homeland for America. The distance and technology meant that they were gone forever.
Midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.
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According to legend, in 1845, Ottoman Sultan declared his intention to send £10,000 to victims of the Irish potato famine, but was instructed to send only £1,000, so as not to donate more than Queen Victoria, who had sent £2,000. He sent £1,000 along with three or five ships full of food.
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The population of Ireland still hasn't recovered from the famine of 1845-1852. It was at 8 million before the famine and is at 4.5 million today.
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That, since the Great Potato Famine in 1845 Ireland, the population STILL hasn't recovered
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By eating only potatoes and buttermilk, Irish peasants were healthier than English or European counterparts who ate bread. The problem with dependence on the potato was when the crop failed, such as the 1845 famine that killed one million and caused another million to emigrate.
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The Irish Famine Memorial, the park has two groups of statues to contrast status of an Irish family suffering during the Great Famine of 1845–1852 with a prosperous family that had emigrated to America. It has been described as "the most mocked and reviled public sculpture in Boston"
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In 1845 when Ottoman Sultan, Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I, declared his intention to send £10,000 to the victims of the Irish potato famine, Queen Victoria intervened and requested that the Sultan send only £1,000, because she had sent only £2,000 herself.
