📜 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 ...

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

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.

The blight pathogen destroyed the potato crop, reducing the vegetable to an inedible mess, “but the famine—a complex ecological, economic, logistical, and political disaster—was,” Scanlan ...

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%.

Fintan O’Toole on a new book by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan about the potato blight, its death toll, and the response by England.

P. infestans made its way to Ireland, which heavily depended on potatoes — they were a staple food for at least two-thirds of the population, including many agricultural laborers. The pathogen struck ...

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 ...