As emotive as the subject may be, Rot moves beyond sentiment, ideology and the false comforts of denial and denunciation.

a short film and it's heavy on photos." "Even if you don't know anything about the Famine hopefully you'll still find it very interesting." To learn more about The Irish Potato Famine Exhibition ...

ipomoeae, native to Mexico. They also included historic samples of P. infestans collected during the Irish Potato Famine. The results were clear. The Mexican species, P. mirabilis and P.

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great ... of the start of the Irish Potato Famine (1845 to 1852).

In the mid-nineteenth century, Ireland suffered from an event known as the Great Hunger or the Potato Famine. Ireland at the ...

Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish ... during the event itself “difficult to imagine.” It is easy to sympathize with this difficulty. The ...

His latest book is Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine. From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed ... The panicked rush to escape from Ireland during the blight was followed ...

As well as a keynote speech by the Taoiseach, the commemoration event will feature military honors and a wreath-laying ceremony in remembrance of all those who died during the Famine. Wreaths will ...

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 ...