[afraidfortherepublic]

Even today, the Irish population has still not recovered to pre-famine levels...

I question that statement. Of course the population has recovered -- they just live outside of Ireland. My great grandfather left 13 children when he died and countless descendants in subsequent years.

[babble-on]

That is true. Thank God for the Irish diaspora: phenomenal music and red-headed girls

[Georgia Girl 2]

Well our population has recovered they just did it in the US.

[muawiyah]

The population living on the island didn't recover ~ but obviously somebody did ~ about 90% of all the human beings of identifiable Irish derivation live in a handful of countries ~ they are USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and, of course UK!

The Welsh, Cornish, Scottish, Manx, Breton and Galician populations show a similar distribution ~ albeit without all that UK'ness.

Wasn't just the potato famine did that.