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"So sad in themselves": the impact of the Great Famine

From sexual behaviour to agriculture to religion to the diaspora, the Great Famine had effects on Irish society that are still being felt today. Kevin Whelan explains.

Irish emigrants sailing to the US, Illustrated London News, 6th July 1850. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The panicked flood: emigration and the Great Famine

The Famine memorial window at Belfast City Gall

Changing memories: Famine memorials around the world

The memorial at Doolough. Photo: Frank Coyne

'Living skeletons': the Doolough Tragedy

Sir William Wilde, whose statistical analysis gives us a detailed picture of post-Famine Ireland. Image: National Library of Ireland

Greatest ravages: the 1851 census and Famine Mortality

Emigration Nation

Fictional Irish immigrants in the US

How the Irish Famine changed New York City forever

Sea trunk of Margaret Hurley from Gort, Galway, who emigrated to Sydney

Good character: female Workhouse emigration to Australia

Departure Of The Nimrod And Athlone Steamers from Ireland, with emigrants on board, for Liverpool, UK, 1851. Source: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A strange environment indeed: Famine Irish in northwest England

A view of Quebec in the 1860s

Helpless little wanderers: the Famine orphans in Quebec

A child sits on the steps of a tenement building in Glasgow in the mid 19th century.

"The Irish invasion": how the Irish Famine changed Scotland

The effects of the Great Famine: explore the maps

The Famine had a devastating effect on the Irish people and landscape. These maps show how the country was transformed.

Close up of the map

A family in Killarney in 1888

Hunger and poverty after the Famine

Strokestown Park House

Recovering voices and stories: exhibiting the Famine

The cover of Declan O'Rourke's album In Full Colour

'Her Silken Brown Hair': chronicling the Famine in song

William Gladstone, who proposed the extension of income tax to Ireland in the 1850s (Photo by: Bildagentur-online/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Great Famine and the imposition of Income Tax in Ireland

About the Great Irish Famine Project

The Great Irish Famine project