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It happened in Ireland due to a disease that spread through the potato crops.

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Could the Famine happen again in Ireland?

No. Ireland is a very different country now than it was in the 1840s, so such a famine could not happen again. The country is richer, better educated, has a wide diversity of food and is no longer dependant on the potato as was the case in the 1840s.


Did Poland have a potato famine?

never, are you kuku? Ireland did, in the 1840s


In which decade did the Irish Potato Famine occur?

1840s-1850s


What vegetable famine did Ireland have many years ago?

The potato famine, in the second half of the 1840s.


Which event made one million Irish people leave Ireland in the mid-1800?

The Irish Potato Famine


Why did potato famine happen?

The downy mildew caused the Irish Potato Famine during the 1840s.


Nation where a potato famine in the 1840s led to a great migration of its people to America?

Ireland.


When did most Irish people immigrate?

Assuming you mean America, the 1840s due to the potato famine.


What was the most common reason why a large number of Irish immigrants came to the US in the 1840s?

Most of the immigration was caused by the potato famine, but some were caused when their king had switched to a England church because of his marriage. That caused England to be in control of Ireland which left them weak. Another when the black plague had spread to them from England and the Irish were mad at them cause now, England had made most of their troubles.


What disease did the Irish potatoes have?

During the 1840s, potato blight affected potatoes in Ireland, causing a famine.


In the early nineteenth century there was not enough food in Ireland this is called?

You are referring to the potato famine that occurred in the 1840s.


Where did most of the Irish immigrants who came to the US following the potato famine of the 1840s?

The Irish immigrated because of the Irish Potato Famine in 1845