Its effect on the potato gives “Rot,” a vigorous and ... In a preface to the monumental “Atlas of the Great Irish Famine,” published in 2012, the former President of Ireland, Mary McAleese ...

By contrast, Holt McDougal’s US history textbook The Americans devotes a flat two sentences to “The Great Potato Famine.” Prentice Hall’s America: Pathways to the Present fails to ...

Those plans represent the San Francisco Irish Great Famine Memorial Plaza ... known widely as the potato famine, that killed 1 million Irish, with a million more fleeing to America to escape ...

In fact, potato dependence was an adaptation to a ... For many descendants of Irish emigrants, the Great Famine is the anchor for a common – if often distant and attenuated – identity ...

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

It is about this time each year when my thoughts wander back to the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations I have enjoyed in the past ...

However, the famine worsened when the potato harvest failed again in 1846 ... Some people emigrated to Great Britain and Australia, but most emigrated to America. Image caption, Many Irish people ...

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost ...