Great Potato Famine (3 lugl 1846 anni – 3 lugl 1852 anni)

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The Great Famine in Ireland was an epidemic worsened by the Whig government, led by John Russel in 1846 to 1852. Between those times, around a million people were estimated to have dies of starvation and disease, killing about 1/8 of the population. Potato blight, a fungus, was deemed a major start of the problem, taking 1/3 of the populations main survival resource away. Grain, in an effort to fill this food gap was exported in three times more than usual though the gap was so enormous that even if they stopped exporting their own it still would not fill the gap.The government had a couple of doctrines that determined largely why relief measures were not taken such as Laissez-faire, that there should be little to no government interference. The other doctrines were affected by this main one as the Whig government saw little need to spend money on a immigrating faster as well as feeding a large part of the population clashed with the Whigs values of how government and society worked.

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