In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten... Supreme Court blocks order requiring Trump administration to reinstate thousands of federal ...

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

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.

Scanlan shows in “Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine,” is much more complex ... and to the introduction of free trade in 1845, which drew Ireland’s large-scale production of ...

In the decade following the 1845 appearance of the potato blight ... The first ward was comprised of the Battery, where the Famine Irish would have found themselves after disembarking.

The chances of somebody being a rebel in the struggle for Irish independence was impacted by the extent to which the Great Famine affected where they came from, new research shows. Revenge for ...

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 ...