The Late 19th Century Ireland: The Great Famine

The Great Famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845 when the potato crop failed in continuous years. The crop failures were caused by blight, a disease that destroyed both the leaves and the edible roots of the potato plant. The Irish famine was the worst to happen in Europe in the 19th century. In the early 19th century, Ireland’s lower class tenant farmers, particularly who worked in the west of Ireland, put an effort to yield for themselves and to supply the British government with cereal crops. The potato, which had become the main food in Ireland by the 18th century, was easy to grow in the Irish soil. By early 1840 almost all of the poor class of the Irish population relied on the potato for their diet. The rest of the population consumed

A lot of people were starving during the famine because of the deadly shortage of food. The Irish understood that the British policy in Ireland was about taking the food from the people and making them starving. The Great Famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845 when the potato crop failed in continuous years. The crop failures were caused by blight, a disease that destroyed both the leaves and the edible roots of the potato plant. The Irish famine was the worst to happen in Europe in the 19th century. In the early 19th century, Ireland’s lower class tenant farmers, particularly who worked in the west of Ireland, put an effort to yield for themselves and to supply the British government with cereal crops. The potato, which had become the main food in Ireland by the 18th century, was easy to grow in the Irish soil. By early 1840 almost all of the poor class of the Irish population relied on the potato for their diet. The rest of the population consumed the potato in a large number. In 1845, the disease, which was the blight arrived in Ireland and destroyed the potato plant. The crop failure had been happening for following