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The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, began in 1845 when a mold known as Phytophthora infestans (or P. infestans) caused a destructive plant disease that spread rapidly...
The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight (Phytophthora infestans) [14] throughout Europe during the 1840s. Blight infection caused 100,000 deaths outside Ireland and influenced much of the unrest that culminated in European Revolutions of 1848. [15]
Great Famine, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th century: about one million people died from starvation or from typhus and other famine-related diseases.
A blighted potato tuber. The European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties.
The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Famine or An Gorta Mór in Irish, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. Between one and two million people emigrated from Ireland during the Great Hunger.
The Great Famine that ravaged the potato crop in Ireland in the 1840s caused widespread starvation and prompted a wave of immigration to America.
It is estimated that by the early 1840s almost half of the Irish population had come to depend almost exclusively on the potato for their diet. Enter Phytophthora infestans, a funguslike water mold with the ability to decimate potato plants with a disease known as late blight.
The Irish Potato Famine or the ‘Great Hunger’ was the last great famine in Western Europe and also one of the most catastrophic recorded in that region. It led to the death of up to a million people and the emigration of two million people from the island of Ireland.
The Young Ireland movement was both energized and divided by the famine of the 1840s. Two writers in particular immersed themselves in the period’s debate about Ireland’s future and Britain’s policies during the famine: John Mitchel and James Fintan Lalor.
The short term cause of the Great Famine was the failure of the potato crop, especially in 1845 and 1846, as a result of the attack of the fungus known as the potato blight. The potato was the staple food of the Irish rural poor in the mid nineteenth century and its failure left millions exposed to starvation and death from sickness and ...