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Ireland’s great famine of the mid-19th century resulted in:

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Great Famine, also called Irish Potato Famine, Great Irish Famine, or Famine of 1845–49, famine that occurred in Ireland in 1845–49 when the potato crop failed in successive years. The crop failures were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys both the leaves and the edible roots, or tubers, of the potato plant.
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Millions of people fleeing Ireland for the Americas

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The great famine of Ireland was a period of illness, death and misery that occurred in the nineteenth century (1845-1852), which killed one million people and forced the emigration of millions of other Irish to North America. According to historians, the great hunger occurred because something like a fungus contaminated a large volume of potatoes, making it impossible to consume them and starving the Irish.

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