The Potato Famine drove Irish emigration and radicalized Irish nationalism

Evidence

In Ireland, the late 1840s was the time of the great harvest disasters that came to be known as the Potato Famine or the Great Hunger. Its immediate consequences were both the momentous emigration from Ireland to the United States and the precipitation of an even more extreme nationalism among Irishmen both home and abroad. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 264

Categorization

• XREF: Famine-driven emigration to the US anticipates how displaced diaspora populations feed later radical movements, paralleling the reader’s interest in origins of Black radicalism. — connects to: The Act of Union forced mass Irish emigration by throttling industry and agriculture — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 135