As a result of this calamity, the population of Ireland decreased by 25%, or 2 million people, in the 1840s
It is estimated that one and a half million people died during the Famine 
and... [DOC] [TLE] BBC - History - British History in depth: The Irish Famine [PAR] Feb 17, 2011 ... A million people are said to have died of hunger in Ireland in the late ... and 1851, 
and some two million emigrated in a period of a little more than a decade (1845-
55).