📜 Irish Potato Famine: Isle of Blight - The potato blight hit the United States first before it came to Ireland (and other countries). But what made it particularly devastating in Ireland was ...

The Irish don't even call it the potato famine. They call it An Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger, because it wasn't really our fault. - Potato, please.

In “Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York,” Anbinder uses the bank records to dispel a myth that’s prevailed for generations about the 1.3 million Irish ...

The Irish Famine was not the result of a potato crop failure. It was a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the people of Ireland the food they needed to survive.

Two South Whidbey residents help to organize a unique cross-cultural exchange in Ireland this month. Two South Whidbey ...

The Irish potato famine of 1845–52 resulted in more than a million deaths. Another million people were displaced, and Ireland’s population was reduced by about 25%.

Early summer’s rainy, humid weather created exactly the sort of conditions suitable for the spread of potato blight ...

The Irish Potato Famine moniker came from outside of the Emerald Isle. In Ireland alone, as many as 1.25 million died because of the famine, while 1 million emigrated voluntarily or by force, ...

He’s a chip off the old block. A new dad who comes from a long line of cops and firefighters — dating back to the Irish potato famine — was promoted at an FDNY ceremony Friday along with ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The devastating Irish potato famine triggered an “arms race” between plants and ...

Deadly Irish potato famine originated thousands of miles away, study finds Scientists have been split over the origins of the pathogen behind the blight. By Hanna Geissler. 19:01, ...