In the mid-19th century, a microscopic invader swept across Ireland, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. The potato blight, caused by the fungus-like pathogen Phytophthora infestans, triggered ...

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. US Ally in Asia ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed by a novel pathogen, the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans.

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

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There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost ...