They used potatoes as their basic food. That's why a lot of them had to flee away when there was the insufficiency of them.
A storm that destroyed Potato farms for 5 years.
Diversity is key in pretty much any venture. The famine was cause because there was only a single variety of potatoes and a single strain killed them all.
Mass starvation (leading to deaths) and mass migration of the populace to other countries (mainly the US).
The Main reason is because of Potato Blight
the answer lies in the question POTATO IS ONE OF THE MAIN CROPS (RICE IS TOO) they were living on potato's basically that's why :)
1000s of people died during the potato famine in Ireland, so many Irish people immigrated to America looking for a better life.
Many people starved and died. Many people left Ireland and went to other countries. Ireland's population was greatly reduced.
Potato Famine
The Irish Potato Famine
personally, i think the potato famine was absolutely worse than the Jewish holocaust.... the potato famine killed a million irish people.
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The Irish immigrated because of the Irish Potato Famine in 1845
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The potato crop.
The Irish Potato Famine was caused by Phytophthora infestans: fungus-like eukaryotic organisms.
The changes of the Great Irish Potato Famine affected religion by causing the Protestants to view the famine as a punishment. They then pushed the Protestant religion on the Irish Catholic people.
the Irish immigrated because of the great potato famine
Lumpers. ... until the crop was affected by blight which destroyed the crops and then there were none. That's why it it ended in the Irish crisis called the potato famine.
There have been two; The lesser known Irish Famine 1740-1741 & The Great Famine 1845-1852.