The potato famine also affected Irish-speaking people, and accelerated the Englishification of Irish society. It has been noted that while many Irish people spoke Irish before the famine ...

it is important to remember that 2022 also marks the 177th anniversary of the start of the Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1852). For many, the term "taking the soup" is synonymous with the Famine story.

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. Kennedy slashing 10,000 jobs in health department overhaul Big Changes Are Coming To KFC In ...

The situation was made worse by the Corn Law, which kept the price of corn too high for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ...

Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine by the historian ... not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died.

The historic photo was displayed as part of The Irish Potato Famine exhibit hosted at ... a way that it sticks to the story, it uses the facts but it tells the story in an easy way with very ...

He would have been forgotten but that, in 1890, he composed a lengthy account of the Famine ... of Irish land and labour within a shrinking and accelerating world”. The potato, of course ...

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.