Famine meaning - Great Famine (Ireland)

King Solomon offered as a sacrifice 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep.

The malnourished are very vulnerable to ; therefore, these were more severe when they occurred.

Woodham-Smith added that provision via the workhouses by the had to be paid by levied on the local property owners, and in areas where the famine was worst, the tenants could not pay their rents to enable landlords to fund the rates and therefore the workhouses.

One possible estimate has been reached by comparing the expected population with the eventual numbers in the 1850s.

The historian Cecil Woodham-Smith wrote in that no issue has provoked so much anger and embittered relations between England and Ireland "as the indisputable fact that huge quantities of food were exported from Ireland to England throughout the period when the people of Ireland were dying of starvation".

For their respective inhabitants England, Holland, Scotland, Germany, are taking early the necessary precautions—getting provisions from every possible part of the globe; and I ask are Irishmen alone unworthy the sympathies of a paternal gentry or a paternal Government? According to , an editorial in the Irish Echo by James Pius Sweeney stated: 'The genocide of the Great Famine is distinct in the fact that the British created the conditions of dire hopelessness, and desperate dependence on the potato crop through a series of sadistic, debasing, premeditated and barbarous , which deliberately and systematically stripped the Irish of even the least semblance of basic human freedom.