Editing 1840s (section)

===== Ireland =====
The [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] of the 1840s caused the deaths of one million Irish people and over a million more emigrated to escape it.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Irish Potato Famine |publisher=Digital History |date=7 November 2008 |url=http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/irish_potato_famine.cfm |access-date=2008-11-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823030816/http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/irish_potato_famine.cfm |archive-date=23 August 2012 }}</ref> It is sometimes referred to, mostly outside Ireland, as the "Irish Potato Famine" because one-third of the population was then solely reliant on this cheap crop for a number of historical reasons.<ref>{{citation|title=The Great Hunger|first=Cecil|last=Woodham-Smith|year=1991|page = 19}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=This Great Calamity|last=Kinealy|first=Christine |year=1994|publisher=Gill & Macmillan|isbn=978-0-7171-4011-4|pages = xvi–ii, 2–3}}</ref><ref>{{citation|title=The Irish Potato Famine|last=O'Neill|first=Joseph R.|year=2009|publisher=ABDO| isbn=978-1-60453-514-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TVEWfeClF8MC|page = 1}}</ref> The [[Proximate cause#Historiographical usage|proximate cause]] of [[famine]] was a potato disease commonly known as [[potato blight]].<ref>{{citation|title=Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives|first=Cormac|last=Ó Gráda|year=2006|publisher=Dublin Press|isbn=978-1-904558-57-6|page = 7}}</ref> A census taken in 1841 revealed a population of slightly over 8 million.<ref>{{citation|publisher=Gill and Macmillan Ltd|first=Richard|last=Killen|year=2003|title=A Short History of Modern Ireland}}</ref> A census immediately after the famine in 1851 counted 6,552,385, a drop of almost 1.5 million in 10 years.<ref>{{citation|last1=Vaughan|first1=W.E|last2=Fitzpatrick|first2= A.J|editor1=W. E. Vaughan|editor2=A. J. Fitzpatrick|title=Irish Historical Statistics, Population, 1821/1971|publisher=[[Royal Irish Academy]]|year=1978}}</ref>

The period of the potato blight in Ireland from 1845 to 1851 was full of political confrontation.<ref>{{citation|last=Donnelly| first=James S. Jr. |title=Mass Eviction and the Irish Famine: The Clearances Revisited", from The Great Irish Famine|editor-first=Cathal|editor-last=Poirteir|publisher=Mercier Press|location=Dublin, Ireland|year=1995}}</ref> A more radical [[Young Ireland]] group seceded from the Repeal movement and attempted an armed rebellion in the [[Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848]], which was unsuccessful.