Mowbray/Mulberry Part I: 1848-1926

It's the 1840s. Famine has been raging throughout Ireland, there's a typhus epidemic, cholera is spreading too. Victims seeking out door relief peaks at about 840,000 and workhouses are becoming overcrowded. Just to add to the trouble a rebellion is started by the Young Ireland Movement in 1848. The 1851 census showed a decreased of 1.6 Million in the space of 10 years which was due to the famine and the vast numbers emigrating to America. Quite a gloomy picture you might say.