By 1852 the famine had largely come to an end other than in a few isolated areas. This was not due to any massive relief effort – it was partly because the potato crop recovered but mainly it was because a huge proportion of the population had by then either died or left. During the...
Mahony, James, Sketches in the West of Ireland, published in the Illustrated London News (1847); Kissane, Noel, The Irish Famine, a Documentary History (1995); Woodham-Smith, Cecil, The Great Hunger (1962). How To Cite This Article: "The Irish Potato Famine, 1847", EyeWitness to ...
Ironically, less than 100 years before to the Famine’s onset, the potato was introduced to Ireland by the landed gentry. However, despite the fact only one variety of the potato was grown in the country (the so-called “Irish Lumper”), it soon became a staple food of the poor, parti...
Ever since the 19th century Irish famine, the oomycetePhytophthora infestanshas caused recurrent outbreaks on potato and tomato crops that have been primarily caused by the successive rise and migration of pandemic asexual lineages (Goodwin SB, Cohen BA, Fry WE, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 91:11591–...
The genome of Phytophthora infestans, the pathogen that triggered the Irish potato famine in the nineteenth century, has been sequenced. It remains a devastating pathogen, with late blight destroying crops worth billions of dollars each year. Blight is d
Mass migration from the island nation, though, didn’t begin until the United States itself had been independent from Britain for some 60 years, when the Potato Famine or “Great Hunger” of Ireland began. The cause of the famine was a blight caused by a pathogen that led to potato crops...
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this period from 1845 to about 1850 when 1,000,000 Irish people starved to death or died of related diseases, and another 1,000,000 fled to other countries -- mainly to the United States -- is often called The Great Famine or even the Potato Famine, it was much more than a famine....
Irish books under its imprint Books Ulster. Our latest publication‘The Hunger is Upon Us’: Eyewitnesses to the Irish Famineis a compilation of first-hand accounts from book and newspaper sources of the truly terrible suffering endured by so many as the result of the potato blight of the ...
The 19th century was marked by massive expulsion of the Irish people from the land via the use of biological warfare known today as the Irish famine caused by the Irish potato blight. All these centuries there was a Germanization policy as well. To bleach out the black Irish,...