Population density in Ireland in 1841, 1936, 2002

[Peterski]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/com...841_1936_2002/

[templumForasticus]

[Peterski]

My countryman helped the Irish survive the Great Famine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawe%C5%82_Strzelecki

"(...) Towards the end of 1846, the Great Irish Famine was under way and the British Relief Association formed with the sum of £500,000 subscribed for the relief of the sufferers. Strzelecki was appointed an agent of the Association to superintend the distribution of supplies in County Sligo, County Mayo and County Donegal. He devoted himself to his task with success, though he was for a time incapacitated by famine fever. In 1847 and 1848 he continued his work in Dublin as sole agent for the Association. In recognition of his services he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in November 1848. He helped impoverished Irish families to seek new lives in Australia. It has been estimated that the various works in which he was involved saved 200,000 Irish lives. (There is a commemorative plaque dedicated to him on Sackville Place, Dublin[12]). He was also active in helping injured soldiers during the Crimean War, being personally acquainted with Florence Nightingale. Strzelecki arrived back to London in 1849, where he was made a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was awarded its gold medal for "exploration in the south eastern portion of Australia". The Society still displays his huge geological map of New South Wales and Tasmania for public viewing. He was also made a fellow of the Royal Society, having gained widespread recognition as an explorer as well as a philanthropist. (...)"

[Visage pâle]

'English elites' were so much racist that they considered irish like 'untermensch'.

[Grace O'Malley]

'English elites' were so much racist that they considered irish like 'untermensch'.

A long history of colonisation. They wanted the land. The Irish were rebellious and also wouldn't let go of their Catholic religion. Being Catholic to a certain degree kept the Irish from assimilating. It was a distinguishing factor and people can be stubborn when they are forced to do something. Many prominent Irish family were offered the chance of keeping their lands if they gave up their religion. Some did but must didn't.

The Penal Laws were, according to Edmund Burke "a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man."[3] Burke long counseled kinder relations by London with its American & Irish cousins, fearing that the punitive spirit fostered by the British was destroying English character, and would spur violent revolt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Laws_(Ireland)