Disaster from Ireland
During the summer of 1845, a famine had being carry around for Ireland's potato crop, the basic staple in the Irish diet. A few days after potatoes were dug out from the ground, they began to turn into a slimy, decaying, blackish "mass of rottenness." There is no way to eat them, because they are not eatable, so a lot of Farmers broke from that famine.
Famine fever, it means infestation of lice. It spread through the Irish countryside, people reported that they saw the children crying with pain and looking like "skeletons." Over the next then years after the famine, more than 750,000 Irish died and 2 million more left their homeland to United States, Canada or Great Britain. Soon, the Irish population was reduced by a quarter.
The Irish potato famine was not simply a natural disaster; it is a production of other social causes. Under the British rule, the Irish Catholics can't buy lands in Ireland, so the peasants plant a lot amount of potatoes, a farmer would grow triple amount of potatoes as a grain on the same plot of land.
The British was trying to end the potatoes Famine, so they open free market, they enable trades from other places and Ireland. In the spring of 1847, Britain adopted other measures to cope with the famine, setting up soup kitchens and programs of emergency work relief. But many of these programs ended when a banking crisis hit Britain. In the end, Britain relied largely on a system of workhouses, which had originally been established in 1838, to cope with the famine. But these grim institutions had never been intended to deal with a crisis of such sweeping scope. Some 2.6 million Irish entered overcrowded workhouses, where more than 200,000 people died.