Great Famine (Ireland)
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The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. It constituted a major historical so
Scene at Skibbereen during the Great Famine, The Illustrated London News, 1847
A potato infected with late blight, showing typical rot symptoms
An 1845 painting depicting the forced eviction of Irish tenants during the Famine era
An Irish Peasant Family Discovering the Blight of their Store by Cork artist Daniel MacDonald, c. 1847
Blight
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Blight is a group of plant diseases sharing a specific symptom caused by infection by a pathogenic organism, often a fungus.
Great Famine (Ireland)
…left Ireland, one of the greatest exoduses from a single island in history. The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight throughout Europe. The impact of blight on food supply caused 100,000 deaths outside Ireland, and influenced much of the unrest that culminated in…
Potatoes destroyed by potato blight
Chestnut blight
Brown felt blight
Potato late blight