What really caused the Irish Potato Famine
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Stephanie Honchell Smith |
TED-Ed
• November 2023
For over 200 years, potatoes thrived in Ireland; roughly half the country’s residents lived almost entirely on potatoes. But when harvesting began in 1845, farmers found their potatoes blackened and shriveled. While this failed harvest created a crisis, the government’s response turned it into a national catastrophe. Stephanie Honchell Smith digs into Ireland's Great Famine. [Directed Denys Spolitak, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].