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

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

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

Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had ...

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.

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

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that destroyed potato crops in ... of free trade in 1845, which drew Ireland’s large ...