From 1845 to 1851, Irish potato crops were destroyed ... relief based on the principles of the free market. But the Irish Great Famine was not a return to the past. It was a complex and modern ...

Sir, - I believe that the Great Famine which started with the failure of the potato crop in 1845 changed the Irish character and culture. It was a turning point in our history. It strengthened our ...

Exploring the socio-economic, political and ideological systems that made the Irish poor vulnerable to disaster ...

Another difficulty is that the Great Hunger was not just an Irish event ... two either were consumed by the famine or joined the exodus in which, between 1845 and 1855, almost 1.5 million sailed ...

Also referred to as "The Great Hunger", the Famine, which was caused by a potato blight, lasted between 1845 and 1849, decimating Ireland's population and resulting in emigration on an ...

By 1845, one-third of U.K. residents lived in Ireland and nearly all of them relied on a single potato strain—a disaster ...

Between 1845 and 1849, Ireland was affected by a famine. This famine killed an estimated ... Some people emigrated to Great Britain and Australia, but most emigrated to America.

There are few events in Irish history as evocative or politically potent as the Great Famine. The blight that ... to the introduction of free trade in 1845, which drew Ireland’s large-scale ...

Pat Uniacke is a champion hurler, not a golfer, but on Sunday he drove his construction truck up from San Bruno just to stand at an overlook of the 17th tee at San Francisco’s Lincoln Park Golf Course ...