What really caused the Irish Potato Famine - Stephanie Honchell Smith
What really caused the Irish Potato Famine - Stephanie Honchell Smith with tags irish potato famine, potato famine, the blight, blight, great hunger, ireland, irish history, famine, potato, potatoes, phytophthora infestans, fungus, british colonialism, british exports, british government, laissez - faire, starvation, malnutrition, disease, irish population, irish emigration, potato crop, potato yield, history, government, government policy, education, animation, stephanie honchell smith, denys spolitak, ted, ted-ed, ted ed, teded, ted education
Dig into what caused the Irish potato famine, and explore how the UK government’s response turned the crisis into a catastrophe.
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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.
Lesson by Stephanie Honchell Smith, directed by Denys Spolitak.
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