Modern Ireland

Modern Ireland

The 1800's met Ireland with further devastation in what is known as the 'Great Potato Famine". Most of the Irish population survived on a poor diet of potatoes; when blight struck the potato harvest one million people starved while another 1.6 million emigrated to America in search for a better life.
Shocks stand in a field outside a stone farmhouse in rural Ireland. [BM] {UA}