L’Irlanda è uno dei pochi conteggi che hanno una popolazione inferiore rispetto al 1800
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L’Irlanda è uno dei pochi conteggi che hanno una popolazione inferiore rispetto al 1800
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di Individual_Active792
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Why, what happened?
1841 was basically four years before the start of the Irish Potato Famine.
This famine really decimated Ireland and changed the course of its history. It particularly affected the peasants, who were the traditional mainstay of Gaelic culture, and the western and southern parts of Ireland, where the Irish language was dominant. The famine basically deprived Ireland of a quarter of its population and its primary source of national identity. Without the famine, it’s possible that today, Ireland would still be a majority Irish-speaking country.
. . . and a housing shortage.
The count of Ireland
I think the only country in Europe, and possibly in the world.
https://youtu.be/LTrk4X9ACtw?feature=shared
The fascination being how the population is down to a handful of centres and namely focused on Dublin compared to the relative spread historically.
It didn’t happen.
But if it did, it wasn’t that bad
But if it was …
I’d think there are far less counts all over Europe.
Fortunately you put the “o” there
hmmmmm i wonder what could have happened!
Total population:
1841: 8,175,124
2024: 7,200,00
This chart mostly shows an heavy migration to the Dublin area.
Fun fact(ish). The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire sent £1000 plus some aid ships to Ireland during the famine. The (ish) part is because as the story goes he wanted to send £10,000 but had to reduce it to the £1000 because Queen Victoria sent £2000 and so diplomatically he was not able to donate more than the queen.
Yeah because the Brits took all of our food while we were in the middle of a famine…
Seems to me like there used to be a higher correlation between size of county and population
It is almost as if colonialism, regular conflict, and an enforced famine have negative impacts on a country’s long term population. Who would have known.
Yep, whenever someone from the UK wants to talk abouit how benevolent the brittish empire was …
They killed millions mostly for pure profits in several countries .
Fuck the english.
Not for long
Wonder how that might have happened 🤔 /s
One reason that is often overlooked is that when the US in the 1920s tightened their immigration policy Ireland was one of the countries that benefited. Immigration from Italy went down 90% but only 19% for the Irish. So they could keep emigrating on pretty much the same scale as before and the country continued to be drained of people.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924
No, no, no, Ireland is full l. Said the nut jobs
You can still see abandoned villages in the Irish countryside today.
Ireland would most likely be majority Irish-speaking and just more culturally Gaelic had the Great Famine never happened.