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If you include Northern Ireland, it's 7.2 million. But it was 8.5 million before the famine; 6.5 immediately after. After that emigration drove that number down

If you include Northern Ireland, it's 7.2 million. But it was 8.5 million before the famine; 6.5 immediately after. After that emigration drove that number down. The population size never recovered to pre famine levels.

ww520 2y ago
My mistake. I did only look up the population in Ireland, forgot that Northern Ireland was part of Ireland until the 1900's.
- przemub 2y ago
  Or you could say that Ireland was a part of Northern Ireland ;)