The famine's effect on people

http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/emigration.html This article is a great source because it maps out the demographics and gives good info about the population during the potato famine. Specifically, this article gives percentages of how many people moved to each country. It also shows a chart of which countries people migrated to overseas. The bad thing about this website is that it does not show where immigrants moved to in Europe on the graph. This site also talks about diseases on the ships.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/20/iyw.howtohelp.somalia.famine/index.html This article is legit because it is written by CNN. This article describes the famine causing many to flee in search of food in Africa. Also, it describes the problems many of the somalians are facing. Many flee to Kenya and Ethiopia. This article is good because it helps describe how the people are being helped, rather than just talking about the struggle they face. I feel like this article was written by someone who supports charity organizations strongly. The majority of the article gives statistics of who is doing what to help.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/after.htm This website talks about estates being bankrupted and the effects of farmers during the famine. The Irish were furious about the living situations during the famine. They held boycotts to their landlords because they were so mad. This article explains how the English tried helping boost the morale and stabilize the government in Ireland during the famine. It elaborates farther by mentioning how there was tension between groups about the independence of Ireland. This article gives a good background history of how the government was shaped during the famine. It seems like it is biased towards the Irish, and it seems like England is the antagonist.

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Famines-Starvation-Thomas-Keneally/dp/1610390652/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315332590&sr=1-2

This book describes the physical and mental effects of hunger on the human body. The author also talks about religion being a factor for life and death. This source seems biased to the negative sides of society. The book seems more depressing and down more than optimistic and looking for answers. The main examination of this writing is how societies should not function.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU1gOOlgdZ4

This video illustrates the diseases people get from eating the disease stricken potato. The producer of this video is a 24 year old male who probably did this video as a project for school. There is no source of credibility in the video, so you can infer it is not 100% accurate. This does have a general background of the famine, but it also has a few interesting facts about the lifestyle and hardships of the people living during the famine. I believe this video was made for students like us just for a general introduction to the famine.