[DOC] [TLE] Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, 
and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes referred to, 
mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine, ... One historian calculated that
, between 1801 and 1845, there had been 114 commissions and 61 special... [DOC] [TLE] Monoculture and the Irish Potato Famine: cases of missing genetic ... [PAR] Lack of genetic variation in Irish potatoes contributed to the severity of the Irish ... 
and a potato disease swept through the country in the 1840s, the potatoes (and 
the ... Although the famine ultimately had many causes, the disaster would likely 
not ... The widespread planting of a single corn variety contributed to the loss of... [DOC] [TLE] Great Famine | Irish history | Britannica.com [PAR] Jan 28, 2016 ... Famine that occurred in Ireland in 184549 when the potato crop failed ... A 
heavy reliance on just one or two high-yielding types of potato greatly ... The 
impoverished Irish peasantry, lacking the money to purchase the foods their 
farms ... its population was barely half of what it had been in the early 1840s. [DOC] [TLE] The History Place - Irish Potato Famine: The Blight Begins [PAR] The potatoes had been attacked by the same fungus that had destroyed the plant 
leaves above ... Ireland's potato crop failures in the past had always been 
regional and short-lived with modest loss of life. Between 1800 and 1845, sixteen 
food shortages had occurred in various parts of Ireland. ... one penny per pound. [DOC] [TLE] BBC - History - British History in depth: The Irish Famine [PAR] Feb 17, 2011 ... In 1846 and successive years blight destroyed the crop that had previously ... The 
food gap created by the loss of the potato in the late 1840s was so .... Find out 
more about how the BBC is covering the World War One... [DOC] [TLE] Irish Potato Famine - American University [PAR] The Issue Throughout the Potato Famine, from 1845 to 1947, more than one 
million people ... (2) Despite the famine conditions, taxes, rents, and food exports 
were ... (10) By 1800, the potato had taken root and ninety percent of the Irish ... 
and vitamin C, which are necessary for a healthy diet, but lack vitamin A and 
calcium. [DOC] [TLE] After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved - History in the ... [PAR] May 21, 2013 ... An international team of scientists has finally solved one of history's greatest ... in 
the early 19th century before spreading to Europe in the 1840s. ... further deaths 
due to Ireland's lack of working mills to process the food;... [DOC] [TLE] What Caused the Irish Potato Famine? | Mises Institute [PAR] May 20, 2008 ... Like most famines, it had little to do with declines in food production as such. ... in 
response to the Irish Potato Famine of the 19th century that killed one million 
people and brought .... What was different in Ireland in the 1840s? [DOC] [TLE] The Irish Potato Famine 1846-1850 - DoChara [PAR] Sep 17, 2008 ... The Irish Potato Famine 1846-1850 ... A healthy potato and one with blight ... The 
crop of all crops, on which they depended for food, had suddenly melted away 
.... to infection and many people died without ever knowing lack of food. ... one in 
the world with a smaller population today than it had in 1840. [DOC] [TLE] The Great Famine of 1845 - History Learning Site [PAR] Famine had been common in Nineteenth Century Ireland and almost an ... 
However, this also meant that large families needed large amounts of food and 
the land situation in Ireland was not ... There was a 50% loss of potatoes in this 
year. ... One scientist advised people to get hold of chloric acid and manganese 
dioxide. [DOC] [TLE] Ireland's population in the mid 1800's - Maps and Pictures [PAR] Through the 1830's and 1840's, the rural population of Ireland had become very 
... not new at this time, it had caused the loss of crops before the

Question: A lack of food; Ireland had a potato one in the 1840s
Answer: Famine