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	The Irish Famine: 1845-9 - http://www.victorianweb.org/history/famine.html Explanation of the blight that destroyed the potatoe crop, leading to a widespread famine.
	Lord Lucan and the Irish Potato Famine - http://www.usp.nus.edu.sg/victorian/history/famine2.html Fifteen-page transcription from "The Reason Why" published by McGraw-Hill in 1953.
	The History Place - Irish Potato Famine - http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/ Six chapters covering all aspects of the 1845 potato crop failure. Includes an overview, a look at the effects, so called 'coffin ships' and subsequent emigration. Provides illustrations.
	Ireland: The Great Famine - http://www.humboldt1.com/~history/lexiso/ Includes information includes a map of Ireland, science of the potato blight and emigration.
	Famine In Ireland - http://history-world.org/famine_in_ireland.htm Text by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy.

	Click2Disasters - The Great Hunger - http://www.click2disasters.com/great_hunger/great_hunger_ch1.htm Offers detailed history of the Irish Potato Famine, from potato blight to mass exodus, with links to primary sources.
	Letter to Lord Russell - http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/abl/etext/irish/russell/russell.html An etext of an 1847 book concerning the crisis of famine in Ireland.

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