In “Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York,” Anbinder uses the bank records to dispel a myth that’s prevailed for generations about the 1.3 million Irish ...

The Irish don't even call it the potato famine. They call it An Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger, because it wasn't really our fault. - Potato, please.

Irish famine victims receiving help. | Historical/GettyImages In 1846, Quakers from the United States and Britain began helping the Irish population, an act they viewed as a Godly responsibility.

The Irish poor, according to many English commentators of the day, had come to depend for sustenance almost exclusively on the potato out of an incurable and slothful barbarism.

The Irish Famine was not the result of a potato crop failure. It was a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the people of Ireland the food they needed to survive.

Ireland was particularly vulnerable to potato crop failure because by the 18th century it... Famine shaped the state Connecticut Post Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

📜 Irish Potato Famine: The American Wake -Not all of the 214,000 Irish immigrants in 1847 made it safely to their new homes--and of those who did, many faced classism and xenophobia and even ...

Ireland was particularly vulnerable to potato crop failure because by the 18th century it... The famine that shaped a state Stamford Advocate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

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 ...

In “Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York,” Anbinder uses the bank records to dispel a myth that’s prevailed for generations about the 1.3 million Irish ...