What started the war in Ireland????

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgDIuYuXUAAPKBg.jpg

this a pretty stark graphic of the effects of war, famine, pestilence, death and mass flight if ever you are going to see one. Big nations recovered from Barbarossa, The Great Leap Forward, 30 year war, Terry Wogan etc. But the ROI is still half the size of it's 1841 population.

Also, which war tbf

was also my first thought. those ring forts from the Neolithic were no joke.

big battle site round our way has a mention in the ancient oral traditions i keep telling imago to get on

Also, which war tbf

The war against the British Empire of course, but much later about a quarter of a mill died for them in The Totally Shite War.

oops ignore me aimless, you talking to dmac!

But the ROI is still half the size of it's 1841 population.

― calzino

wow this is a genuinely surprising fact

lol those pesky brits why we oughtta *shakes fist*

I'm probably a bit inaccurate when you factor in the creation of N Ireland, but the it was 8 and a half million in 1841 according to the census, so still quite a cataclysmic collapse of population.

tbf theres plenty in NI thatd quibble to be called irish so its a moot point