in Ireland at the time did not realise was that the potato crops would fail for the next four years and that the disaster would lead to the deaths and the emigration of millions of its peoples to strange, foreign and distant lands. The potato was the staple diet for the Irish people at...
Particular focus is given to the concepts of memory and forgetting as related to the Famine. Details on the relationship between Ireland, potatoes, and hunger as depicted in French culture are presented. The author describes French writers' theories about the political and spiritual causes of the ...
In Ireland, farmers have described this season as the worst in living memory. Dangerousgenes4 How the mould adapts so rapidly and becomesresistant5to chemical attack has long puzzled scientists. "Thispathogen(病原体)has anexquisite6(精致的,细腻的)ability to adapt and change, and that's what ...
The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, began in 1845 when a mold known asPhytophthora infestans(orP. infestans) caused a destructive plant disease that spread rapidly throughout Ireland. The infestation ruined up to one-half of the potato crop that year, and about three-quar...
While the effects of these failures were largely ameliorated in many countries thanks to their cultivation of a wide variety of different potatoes, Ireland was left vulnerable to these blights due to its dependence on just one type, the Irish Lumper. When HERB-1, which had already wreaked ...
3Thousands of Irish people starved during the "Potato Famine" because A.they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else.B.they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.C.the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes.D.the po...
Well Ireland was hit by an airborne fungus that turned the potatoes to mud before they got out of the ground and rotted them quicker. Potatoes were the main food in Ireland especially for the poor. Without potatoes many died while others immigrated. The potato famine caused a lot of death,...
For over 200 years, potatoes thrived in Ireland; roughly half the country’s residents lived almost entirely on potatoes. But when harvesting began in 1845, farmers found their potatoes blackened and shriveled. While this failed harvest created a crisis,
The Irish Potato Famine that struck Ireland in the mid-1800s was a dark period when many people died or left Ireland. Learn about the potato blight that caused the famine and other facts related to the Irish Famine. Potatoes in Ireland Most kids like potatoes, especially when they're made...
Approximately 1 million people in Ireland died as a result of the Great Famine between 1845-1849. A shortage of potatoes caused the depopulation, which still impacts the Republic of Ireland's comparatively low population level in the 21st century. ...