The painting is titled Emigrants Leaving Ireland.

Read the passage describing the famine that struck Ireland in 1740 to 1741.In 1740–1741 extremely cold temperatures struck vast areas of pre-industrial Europe, causing harvest failures that led to increased prices for staple food, famine, disease, excess mortality and migration. . . . Ireland was probably more vulnerable than most other European countries. Already in the first half of the eighteenth century, Irish food production was based heavily on potatoes and oats – a pattern of cultivation providing little resilience against the risk of harvest failure after an extremely cold winter. . . . Ireland was ill-prepared to deal with the consequences of harvest failure . . .–The Irish Famine of 1740–1741,S. Engler, et al.
What happened to Ireland when British rule came to an end?
How was Germany similar to Italy in the 1800s?
The group Young Italy formed because Italians were unhappy about
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