Your challenge is to have the population of Ireland restored to its heights before the Great Famine by the year 1900.
AHC: Restore the Irish population to pre-famine levels by 1900
- Thread starter Mort the Reaper
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Without waving away the Famine, that's just not going to happen, maybe just maybe if you were able to utterly change the UK's politics to allow massive government intervention (which is ASB honestly) you could slow/arrest the continued migration between the Famine and 1900 but regrowing the population...
Not a chance.
I am reminded that the British government apparently considered resettling millions of Hong Kongers in Northern Ireland in the prelude to their handing the city over to the PRC:
www.theguardian.com
Now, this is obviously well after the stipulations of the OP, but it does cause me to wonder whether there might be some other demographic that the 19th century British Empire might consider resettling on the island.
UK officials discussed resettling 5.5m Hong Kong Chinese in Northern Ireland
Archives reveal debate in 1983 over bizarre idea of moving millions of Chinese to Northern Ireland at height of Troubles ahead of colony’s handover to Beijing
www.theguardian.com
Now, this is obviously well after the stipulations of the OP, but it does cause me to wonder whether there might be some other demographic that the 19th century British Empire might consider resettling on the island.
Given thaat there was even a "little" famine in the 1870's even if you had low migration between the Great Famine and then you'd likely see renewed deaths then if the population was higher.
My timeline concentrates will be concentrating on something that mitigate totally the effect of the famine, but does reduce it, meaning that Ireland retains more of its population in a time when it also receives limited autonomy.
Worth checking out, hasn't got there yet but will soon!
Worth checking out, hasn't got there yet but will soon!
Maybe a "back home" campaign in the US either as a cultural movement amongst Irish Americans themselves, or more darkly through coercion on the part of some sort of hyper nationalistic regime. But very unlikely before 1900.
