As best to my knowledge it was 1845,a fungus brought on the potato blight.One million people died within five years and two million left the country. There was talk of a famine in the 1700,s. The famine lasted roughly from 1845 to 1849. The immediate cause was the disease potato blight, but its effects were magnified because Ireland's farming economy at the time was essentially a "monoculture" that relied heavily on one crop, potatoes, and within that on only one or two varieties of the plant. Since there was neither genetic nor species diversity to help provide disease resistance, once the blight took hold it wiped out a significant part of the country's agriculture. Many of the Irish who left settled in the U.S., resulting in (among other things) a large community of Irish ancestry in New York. Historians have debated other aspects of the famine. It's generally accepted that the British who then ruled Ireland reacted to the famine during the first two years with a kind of neglect that today might be considered to border on ethnic cleansing. They actually exported some crops that did survive (such as grain), despite the horrific conditions at home. Substantive relief efforts did not begin until 1847, but by that point the damage was almost irreversible. In fact, the population of Ireland is only now near the levels that it had at that time.
No. The Great Hunger is what the middle class Irish called it, and The Great Famine is what the British and everyone else called it. The Great Starvation is what the Irish low class called it.
The Greatest hunger was in the West of Ireland, predominatly Mayo, Galway or Roscommon, and was direcly related to the poor quality of the Land. There was an old English saying 'to hell or to Connaught' which was a reference to how un-workable the land in the western province of Connaught was.
A large amount of deaths through starvation and large amounts of emigration which led to the weakening of the Irish Language
From 1845 to about 1852.
1845 and it ended in 1852
Hunger continued to be a problem for Ireland in the years after the Famine. The poor still lived as tenants-at-will, subject to the whim of the landlord. Any improvements they made to the land still became the property of the landlord upon eviction.....Check out more at: http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/after.htm
Ireland suffered the potato famine.It is know to the Irish as the Great Hunger, it was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852.It was caused when potato crop's failed, due to blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant.
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The Irish Famine, also known as the Great Famine or the Irish Potato Famine, occurred from 1845 to 1852. It was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland due to the failure of the potato crop, which was a staple food for the Irish population. The famine resulted in the deaths of approximately one million people and caused widespread emigration from Ireland.
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) The Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór lit: The Great Hunger[1] or An Drochshaol, lit: The Bad Life) was a period of starvation, disease and mass emigration between 1845 and 1852[2] during which the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent.[3] Approximately one million of the population died and a million more emigrated from Ireland's shores.[4] The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as late blight.[5]In the 1840's
Hunger is when you don't eat an famine is starvation on a large amount of people
Hunger.
They suffered from hunger and other illnesses as a result of the famine in Ireland.
The potato late blight caused the Irish potato crops to fail and rot in the fields. This led to what became known as the Great Famine or the Great Hunger, during which there was mass starvation. Starvation and disease, forced many Irish people to emigration from Ireland between 1845 and 1852.
Initially it destroyed the potato crop. This led to hunger and famine and many people dying or leaving Ireland, severely reducing the population, which still has not reached the same levels as they were before the famine began in 1845.
1:Famine means a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death,while drought means a shortage of rainfall.
There is no difference. Actually, there is no such thing as "The Hunger Games Classic".
The word "famine" originates from the Latin word "fames," which means hunger.
the great hunger was the sames as the potato famine
Hunger continued to be a problem for Ireland in the years after the Famine. The poor still lived as tenants-at-will, subject to the whim of the landlord. Any improvements they made to the land still became the property of the landlord upon eviction.....Check out more at: http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/after.htm
Ireland suffered the potato famine.It is know to the Irish as the Great Hunger, it was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852.It was caused when potato crop's failed, due to blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant.
A case of wide-spread hunger is usually called a famine.