Long-term+effects+of+Famine.

Long term effects of the famine One of the long term effects on the famine was emigration. Between 1845 and 1855, 1.5 million people left for good. Over the next 5 years it averaged 200,000 per year, before the numbers fell off. By 1855, the rate was down to 70,000 per year. The demographic impacts of famine are sharp. Reasons for this may include greater female resilience and the fact that women are more skilled at gathering and processing wild foods and other fallback famine foods. Ireland depopulated after the 1840s by waves of emigration. The famine mainly effected working class people The famine seems to have helped the church expand in Ireland. Before the famine it is true that a large proportion of the population did not take any interest in the church.