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Analyzing Social, Political and Economic Impacts on the Tragedy of Mortality during the Great Irish Famine
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SUNY Oneonta Academic Research (SOAR): A Journal of Undergraduate History
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Unangst, Matthew
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2024
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2024
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Between 1845 to 1852, Ireland underwent a historical crisis known as
the Great Irish Famine, afflicting the Irish population with disease and
starvation, and leading to the death of roughly one million people. This
paper seeks to discuss the causes and impacts of this detrimental event,
whilst analyzing and comparing the various social, economic, and
political debates surrounding the resulting death toll of the Irish Famine.
The principal debates within this paper regard the failure of the potato
crop due to blight, the British Whig governments adherence to laissez faire ideology, and the role of anti-Irish racial hatred. In explaining the
influence and significance of these debates, historic subjects such as the
public works projects, and terms such as “non-intervention,”
“moralism,” and “divine providence” are detailed. By comparing these
debates, this paper ultimately seeks to argue that racial hatred was most
significant in causing mass death during the Great Irish Famine.
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Neumann, O. (2024). Analyzing Social, Political and Economic Impacts on the Tragedy of Mortality during the Great Irish Famine. SUNY Oneonta Academic Research (SOAR): A Journal of Undergraduate History, 3.
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