The other ones I typed bc I'm too lazy to retype.

7.
Just the Earl grey project
Basically over 4000 orphaned girls were transported from Ireland to Australia between 1848-50 to work in workhouses and/or be a lords wife. Most of these girls were 8-14.

8.
The British believed the famine was a blessing God to kill all the irish catholics. Queen Victoria spread rumors like this one.

9.
The soup kitchens fed 3 million irish a day in 1847 (the worst year of the famine) they were shut down after 6 months due to the british wanting money from the dying irish.

10.
Robert peel, a British lord, sent £100,000 worth of Indian grain. It was as rough as dog nuts, the irish were told to water it down until it was mush. It was named "Peels Brimestone"

11.
When the british found out that irish women gave birth to be able to eat the baby from starvation, they cut out the uteruses of any woman they found.

12.
Only protestants could have access to food.

13.
The blight originated in America. It was carried by sea birds.

14.
The irish dispora is one of the largest in the world due to forced immigration.

15.
The British gave the irish failed wooden boats originally used for the insides of their larger boats. These were called coffin ships, and many of them sank before making it to the Atlantic from the dock.

16.
Connacht was the worst hit by the famine due to poor soil. The worst year for anywhere was 1847, but for Connacht, black 47 was like any old year. It's the smallest population in Ireland now.

17.
In black 47, the blight came back but not as violently. The irish had eaten their planter potatoes, and were left with no potatoes to plant.

18.
There was enough food in ireland to feed the irish 3 meals for a year. The British imported it due to a small shortage in Britain, leaving the irish with rotted potatoes.

19.
More people died from the disease than the starvation.

20.
Workhouses were made for 100,000 people, but some of them had as much as 300,000. The British refused to make more, leaving most of the population of the workhouses to die to starvation or disease.

21.
The disease rotted people's bodies.
Some people walked around in hope of help while missing limbs that rotted off, their bodies turned yellow, blue, purple or black depending on the stage of disease.

22.
Massgraves were used to dispose of bodies. 50-300 bodies were dumped in a deep hole, covered and a small cross made from twigs were placed ontop.
Every county has atleast one massgrave sight.

23.
Queen Victoria is said to have mocked the irish over dinner, making starvation jokes with an irish accent.
(Fat hoe-)

24.
The blight still exists today, Ireland gets hit with it every year.

25.
Alot of countries are calling the famine "The Irish Genocide" due to the british refusing to give aid to the irish and instead leaving them to die.

26.
The British believed we could eat grass because we weren't as "developed as the English and hadn't fully evolved from the apes"
(A country of peasants had better hygiene then the british)

Little song about queen Victoria :D

[*clears throat*]

VICKY IS A GREAT FAT WHORE~
GREAT FAT WHORE~
GREAT FAT WHORE~
VICKY IS A GREAT FAT WHORE~
WHO FUCKED HER COUSINNNN~

(Sing this like London Bridge is falling down-)