Correction: Paragraph about Irish culture

Paragraph about Irish culture

The most fascinating aspect of Irish culture I learned about by watching the Story of Ireland was the Great Famine and its consequences for Ireland. The Great Famine was a period of mass starvation caused by a disease called the potato blight. Since potatoes were the main food for Irish peasants, a million people starved and a million more emigrated. Irish emigration was mainly to the United States, where they were the poorest of the poor. Within a decade that changed. The Irish emigrants managed to become the driving force of New York politics, because they were able to organize themselves politically on their underprivileged social level. An Irish political organization founded in the United States, called “Fenian Brotherhood of America”, wanted revenge for the Great Famine. The Fenians were convinced that the British had not helped the suffering Irish as much as possible. The Irish organization carried out terrorist attacks in Britain and had much influence on social revolution in Ireland. These Irish emigrants were just one of the many consequences of the Great Famine, a terrible time that affected the history of Ireland and America significantly.