{"id":5332,"date":"2023-10-16T02:59:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5332"},"modified":"2023-10-16T02:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T15:59:03","slug":"famine-12-jan-1950-the-population-of-ireland-decreased-by-one-fourth-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"FAMINE 12 Jan 1950. The population of Ireland decreased by one fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAMINE (1950, January 12).\u00a0<i>Balonne Beacon (St. George, Qld. : 1909 &#8211; 1954)<\/i>, p. 1. Retrieved October 16, 2023, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/215370438?searchTerm=famine&amp;searchLimits=#\">https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/215370438?searchTerm=famine&amp;searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"23280613\" data-x=\"1828\" data-y=\"5028\" data-w=\"729\" data-h=\"169\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Over a period of seven years from 1846 to 1853 the population of Ireland decreased by one fourth, all due to potato blight.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zone onPage readMode\" data-page-id=\"23280613\" data-x=\"1828\" data-y=\"5197\" data-w=\"729\" data-h=\"569\" data-rotation=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"paragraph onPage\">\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">In 1846 the food position was very bad, and farmers planted a huge potato crop. But an exceptionally bad season resulted in the spread of potato blight, and the crop was a total loss.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Then followed\u00a0<span class=\"highlightedTerm\" data-x=\"2118\" data-y=\"5460\" data-w=\"127\" data-h=\"34\">famine<\/span>\u00a0and pestilence caused by the mould and decaying matter from the ruin crops. Vast numbers of people died and many more emigrated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"line\">\n<div class=\"read\">Nearly 1\u00bd million to the USA.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAMINE (1950, January 12).\u00a0Balonne Beacon (St. George, Qld. : 1909 &#8211; 1954), p. 1. Retrieved October 16, 2023, from\u00a0https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/215370438?searchTerm=famine&amp;searchLimits=# Over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[528,26,526,529,527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}