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"Spud 395":s9w369t1 wrote: The population was in steady decline after the famine.
It was 1926 before it hit its low point 4 million lower than the pre-famine high <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->[/quote:s9w369t1]
The point I was making is that history is hard to pin down. The numbers that died, according to school history books, has varied between 600,000 (the height of the troubles) and 2m, depending on who is in govt and how anti-British the feeling of the time is. This is despite the fact that the censuses in 1841 and 1851 show a 1.4m decline.