Essay from the year 2011 in the subject History Europe - Other Countries - Modern Times, Absolutism, Industrialization, grade: 2,1, University College Cork, language: English, abstract: In the following essay I want to start with some statistics and graphics - the demographical view to this topic. But there are even some other important perspectives.

So the next step will be, to take a look at the historical embedment and how the environment had an impact on the peoples behaviour.

Concluding I want to give an answer to the question: why was such a huge amount of people making the decision to emigrate in the 19th century of Ireland?