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From the coming of the vikings to the 1916 rising, take a step back in time in Irish history. Read about Grattan's Parliament, The Famine, and The Flight of the Earls, to understand the more about the history behind the Emerald Isle.

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The Great Famine

The Great Famine of the 1840s was a calamity for the Irish, writes IrishAbroad's Eamon Quinn.

There were famines before in Ireland but the Great Famine of the 1840s -- the failure of the blighted potato crop on which a third of the population depended for survival -- marked and shaped Irish society, politics and its landscape to the present day.

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