2.4 million Irish Famine deaths

An article in “A web of English history” by Dr Marjorie Bloy entitled “The Irish Famine: 1845-1849” (see: The Irish Famine: 1845-1849 ) states: “The 1841 census recorded an Irish population of 8.2 million. By 1851 this figure had been reduced to 6.5 million. These statistics give some indication of the scale of the disaster but since many of those affected by the famine lived in remote and inaccessible places, it is more than possible that far more people died that has ever been thought. It has been estimated that at least one million people died from starvation and its attendant diseases, with the remainder seeking emigration to Britain and North America.”  
 
Taking this data and census data from the “Oxford Illustrated History of Britain” (ed. Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press; p425) and plotting log10 Population versus time yields a straight line (indicative of exponential growth) and a projected population of 9.9 million in 1851 (as compared to the actual population of 6.5 million), this being indicative of an “demographic deficit” of 3.4. Accepting a figure of 1 million Irish emigrants in this period yields 2.4 million Irish Famine deaths – lower than that from Chris Fogarty (see posts 3 and 4 and Toll of Irish Holocaust; his figure of 11.8 million Irish in 1846 is at variance with the other data above) but an utterly shocking testament to the racism and greed of the English Establishment.

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