The central contention in 'Rot' is that Westminster’s response to the starvation was defined by its overarching commitment to ...

New research finds that the long‑term health impacts of the Great Irish Famine varied by region and socioeconomic conditions ...

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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 ...

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.

Ireland's Great Hunger, known to most as the Irish Potato Famine of 1845, is on this list, too, because it sent more than 1 million Irish to American shores. Ireland was particularly vulnerable to ...

Queen Elizabeth II died on Thursday at the age of 96, the longest serving monarch in history, and while there has been a worldwide outpouring of grief, in some countries, people are celebrating.

In the five years of Ireland’s Potato Famine (1845-49), 1,500,000 of the Irish perished—most of them starved to death. They wandered the road and died in ditches. Beggars could get nothing ...

when the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1849 took hold, decimating the population. Sir Robert Peel, Britain's prime minister during the famine, presided over the importation of maize from the Americas ...