7rEOp TIL The Ottomans sent £1000 pounds to the Irish as aid during the potato famine. The sultan attempted to send more, but the British told him not to so as to not donate more than Queen Victoria.
8aLdL TIL the Irish & Native Americans have a 2 century-long friendship, which started after the Choctaw Nation donated $170 to survivors of the Potato Famine in 1847, even though they were still reeling from the Trail of Tears
oR7eA TIL, the Irish Potato Famine, an agricultural disaster that occurred between 1840 and 1850, resulted in over one million deaths and another million emigrants leaving the country.
J1ywQ TIL that the Great Irish Potato Famine had caused such a profound population decline in the country that it took the population 170 years to rebound. In 2021, Ireland’s population exceeded 5 million for the first time since 1851, and it has still yet to fully recover.