The Irish Potato Famine was caused by a potato disease in Ireland in the mid‑1800s. The “Great Hunger” killed about 1 million people, forcing another million to emigrate.
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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.
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La famine et les épidémies se répandent rapidement : deux tiers des victimes meurent littéralement de faim et un tiers succombe du choléra et du typhus qui se propagent au sein d'une population...
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But in the Irish famine of the late 1840s, successive blasts of potato blight - or to give it its proper name, the fungus Phytophthora infestans - robbed more than one-third of the population...
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Irish Potato Famine, (1845–49)Famine that occurred in Ireland when the potato crop failed in successive years. By the early 1840s almost half the Irish population, particularly the rural poor, was depending almost entirely on the potato for nourishment.
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La Grande Famine en Irlande (1845-1848) a été une période des plus sombres de l’Histoire irlandaise. On estime que la catastrophe aurait fait entre 500 000 et 1 million de morts, plongeant l’île dans un climat de grande misère.
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