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Some people were eating frogs and rats to survive. Yet at the end of 1847, Charles Trevelyan made a surprising announcement. Despite the fact that hunger and disease were still claiming thousands of lives, he announced the famine was over. In 1848, the British government also declared that the famine had ended. In truth, however, the Irish Potato Famine still had four years to go. T h e I r i s h Po t a t o Fa m ine 33 More people emigrated as crops failed year after year. Eighteen forty-seven came to be known as Black ’47 due to the heavy losses of potato crops that occurred then.
S. cents. A family of eight couldn’t survive on that amount. One day Nicholson learned that one of the tall road builder’s six children had died because of a lack of food and medical care. Nicholson had observed that the tall man was so “sick with fever” that he “staggered” about. Yet the government did little to help such families. Some historians claim that Ireland actually had enough farm products to feed all its people during the Great Potato Famine. In each year of the famine, a portion of the potato crop T h e I r i s h Po t a t o Fa m ine 29 was salvaged.
The smaller, 58 G reat Escapes: The Ir i s h Pot a t o Fa m ine Soldiers fight during the Easter Rebellion of 1916. Also known as the Easter Rising, the pivotal event took place on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. mainly Protestant, country in the northeast was called Northern Ireland. The southern five-sixths of the island, which was mainly Catholic, became the Irish Free State. The Irish Free State maintained some ties to England. For example, it had to retain English naval bases and acknowledge the English monarch as chief of state.