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 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 ...

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

As spring approaches, farmers across the state prepare for potato season — the planting process begins after the last hard ...

However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 due to the potato blight. The British government did try and help a little. In 1846, Prime Minister Robert Peel ordered £ ...

Take some time to remove all the tubers, not matter how tiny, or they'll grow next year and disrupt that year's crops. Potato blight or 'late blight' is a devastating fungus disease that spreads ...

The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost one-quarter. For nearly two centuries, historians with an Irish-nationalist bent have explained ...