The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a ...

6 天之前 · Great Famine, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The Irish famine was the worst to occur in Europe in the 19th century: about one million people died from starvation or from typhus and other famine-related diseases.

2017年10月17日 · The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, began in 1845 when a mold known as Phytophthora infestans (or P. infestans) caused a destructive plant disease that spread rapidly...

爱尔兰大饥荒，俗称马铃薯饥荒，（failure of the potato crop）是一场发生于1845年至1850年间的饥荒。 在这5年的时间内，英国统治下的 爱尔兰 人口锐减了将近四分之一；这个数目除了饿死，病死者，也包括了约一百万因饥荒而移居海外的爱尔兰人。 造成饥荒的主要因素是一种称为晚疫病菌（致病疫霉 菌）（Phytophthora infestans）的 卵菌 （Oomycete）造成马铃薯腐烂继而失收。 马铃薯是当时的爱尔兰人的主要粮食来源，这次灾害加上许多社会与 经济因素，使得广泛的失 …

The Irish Potato Famine or the ‘Great Hunger’ was the last great famine in Western Europe and also one of the most catastrophic recorded in that region. It led to the death of up to a million people and the emigration of two million people from the island of Ireland. It …

2021年9月20日 · The Famine or the ‘Great Hunger’ as it was known led to the deaths of 1 million people and another two million emigrated. The article will examine the impact of the famine on Irish society and how it ‘decisively shaped its history and the nature of its society and economy.

5 天之前 · The Great Irish Famine (1845-1852) remains one of the darkest chapters in Ireland’s history. Over one million people died, and another one million emigrated, dramatically altering the island’s demographics.Traditionally, history books have described the famine as a natural disaster —a tragic consequence of potato blight that devastated the staple crop of Ireland’s poor.

The Great Irish Famine was not just a watershed in Irish history, but also a major event in global history, with far-reaching and enduring economic and political consequences. Individual memories of the famine, coupled with ‘collective memory’ of the event in later years, influenced the political culture of both Ireland and Irish-America ...

2011年2月17日 · The Great Famine in Ireland began as a natural catastrophe of extraordinary magnitude, but its effects were severely worsened by the actions and inactions of the Whig government, headed by Lord...

2022年11月12日 · The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Famine or An Gorta Mór in Irish, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. Between one and two million people emigrated from Ireland during the Great Hunger.