Great Irish Famine

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The Wikipedia-article called “Great Famine (Ireland)” cites seven expert estimates on the number of people who died from hunger and disease during the Great Hunger in Ireland from 1845 to 1849, which range from to 0.7 to 1.5 million. The most plausible estimate is 1.1 million.

Two books contain convincing evidence that criminal policies by the British colonial regime were the main cause of the high famine mortality – John Kelly’s “The Graves Are Walking” and Susan Campbell Bartoletti’s “Black Potatoes”.

I choose 1 million victims of British colonialism during the Great Irish Famine as the most plausible estimate.