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Based on the stats I could find the estimated population of Ireland in 1841 was 8.2 million, this is in comparison to England that same year with a population of 15.9 million, this is a population ratio of roughly 2:1 for england.

Just 30 years later after the mass deaths and emigration due to the famine, the population figures stood as this 26.0 million for England and 5.4 million for Ireland in 1871.

If not for the great famine would we have seen a continuation of the pre-famine population growth of Ireland with its population fluctuating around only half or so of England's population, as opposed to closer to 1/10th by the time of the Irish war of Independence? Perhaps with Ireland currently being a much larger country population wise.
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