The SS Empress of Ireland left Quebec City on May 28, 1914, at 16:30/4:30 p.m. local time. The ship carried a total of 1,477 passengers and crew. It was struck by the Norwegian coal freighter SS Storstad the following morning at 2:00/2:00 a.m., in heavy fog. There were only 465 survivors from the collision and sinking. The final death toll was 1,012, of which 134 were children and 279 women.
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550,000 people died in 1847 due to famine in Ireland.
In the second half of the 1840s, potato blight destroyed the potato crop in Ireland. At that time it was a major source of food in Ireland. As a result of that famine, many people died and many left Ireland in search of a better life.
Everyone in Ireland because of the potato famine in the 1900"s
In the census of 2011 there were just over 115,000 Polish people in Ireland
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