Between 1846 and 1854 about a million Irish died of starvation.
During that time, more than one and a half million Irish left their country.
Others left because they were not allowed to worsh as they wanted.
There were goof reasons why so many Irish left their homeland.
The main reason wad the potayo famine.
For years, the potators would not grow in lreland.
They had a disease anf because og thos many people died of starvtion.