The Great Famine: Ireland’s Heartbreaking Demographic Catastrophe
The year is 1845. A seemingly innocuous blight, Phytophthora infestans, begins its insidious creep across the emerald fields of Ireland. It’s a microscopic enemy, invisible to the naked eye, yet it would unleash a demographic devastation so profound that its echoes still resonate today. This was the beginning of the Great Famine, An Gorta Mór, … Read more
