Un paseo por la playa
Originally uploaded by Javier Alfaro
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Famine Memorial 2, Dublin, Ireland
Famine Memorial 2, Dublin, Ireland
Originally uploaded by Martinrossi
The Great Hunger (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad life) reduced the population of Ireland by 20 to 25 percent between 1845 and 1852.[1] It is a highly contentious topic of history and known by various names, such as The Great Famine in Ireland itself and The Irish Potato Famine internationally. The proximate cause[2] of the famine was a pathogenic water mold, Phytophthora infestans, commonly known as potato blight. Though P. infestans ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, its human cost in Ireland was exacerbated by a host of political, social, economic, and climatological factors which remain the subjects of heated historical debate.
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