known widely as the potato famine, that killed 1 million Irish, with a million more fleeing to America to escape it between 1845 and 1852. The memorial will start with a concrete and steel plaza ...

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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 ...

So begins, Rot, Padraic X Scanlan’s disturbing and insightful account of the Irish famine. The “Great ... on the subsistence crop of the miracle potato was a utilitarian innovation.

AI-generated ‘Historical POV’ videos transport viewers to past events such as the Famine. But how accurate are they? Adele Miner finds out The Famine Memorial in Dublin. Photo: Chris Jackson ...

The National Famine Way ends at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum, a multi-award-winning museum that recounts 1,500 years of Irish history, explaining how, where and why the Irish emigrated and ...

Late blight – the same disease that brought about the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s – still causes billions of dollars in damage to potato crops worldwide. Douches, a pioneer in potato ...

For the past 40 years, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network ... Last September, former Irish president and chair of the Elders Mary Robinson told an emergency briefing held by Dóchas that ...

A research team has decoded the genome of historic potato cultivars and used this resource to develop an efficient method for analysis of hundreds of additional potato genomes.

A pair of stone mushrooms, or staddle stones Cast iron intertwined vine garden bench Famine pots, or soup boilers, are a reminder of the saddest chapter of Irish ... When the potato crop failed ...