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 ...

A senior Conservative MP appeared to make “offensive and insensitive” comments about the Irish potato famine, the Commons has heard. Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith, responding to a question ...

Though failing to create Irish independence, it spurred Canada's push for nationhood. The Great Hunger, or the potato famine, devastated Ireland, causing 1 million deaths and driving two million ...

The potato famine was a major event in modern Irish history. In Ireland, it is known officially as the Great Famine or An Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Republican mural on Upper Falls Road in ...

📜 Irish Potato Famine: The Young and the Old - Irish leaders entered the picture when the 1847 Poor Laws backfired, leading landowners to mass-evict their starving tenants. Daniel O'Connell ...

Dependence on a single crop is risky. When blight strikes vulnerable communities, the consequences can be devastating.

However, no people were as heavily dependent on the potato as the Irish. Scanlan starkly figures the inevitable disaster: Between 1845 and 1851, at least 1 million people died of famine-related ...

Jean Ristaino, a plant pathologist at North Carolina State University who led the research group, acknowledges that many factors aside from potato blight contributed to the famine. They include ...

A senior Conservative MP has denied mocking the Irish famine during a debate in the House of Commons. Shadow Business ...