Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine ... for Irish people to afford to buy it. However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 due to the potato ...

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 ...

IrishCentral Contributor Loretto Leary on the 2025 Annual Irish Famine Commemoration Day Ceremony at the Gaelic American Club ...

A Co Donegal tourist attraction telling the story of the Irish Famine has been partially destroyed in a fire. The blaze was reported on Saturday afternoon at Doagh Famine Village in the Ballyliffin ...

Limerick TD and Minister for Arts and Culture Patrick O’Donovan announced that the 2025 National Famine Commemoration would ...

A heartbreaking Irish famine story of death ... to have hit Ireland. Between 1845 and 1850 an estimated one million people died there when the staple potato crop failed. If you add forced ...

1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that ...

Most had a little money to get to their desired destination. The potato famine in Ireland that began in 1845 changed all of that. The Great Famine struck an Ireland that was already struggling.

Scotland's History Land and Votes Potato blight ruins ... Having already destroyed most of Ireland's crop, the blight appears in Scotland. Before long it provokes a famine. Video: A history ...