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What really caused the Irish Potato Famine

Stephanie Honchell Smith · TED

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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. [Directed Denys Spolitak, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].

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Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Stephanie Honchell Smith
Year
2023
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Society and politics, History, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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