house and ask about their potatoes. His neighbor’s potatoes were black‚ rotten‚ and giving off a foul stench. This would later be discovered to have affected thousands of acres in the countryside of Ireland. The Irish Potato Famine caused by Phytophthora infestans would cause one million people to immigrate to the United States and left over one million dead. Early in the 19th century‚
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PART 1. PHYTOPHTHORA AND Mt. WORTH STATE PARK Phytophthora which is responsible for the root rots is also known as jarrah dieback‚ cinnamon fungus and wildflower dieback. Most phytophthora species produces three types of spores‚ zoospores‚ oospores and chlamydospores. Among these two major types found are zoospores and chlamydospores. Zoospores are formed in sporangium. Each sporangium roughly produces 20-30 zoospores. Production of zoospores occurs normally in moist conditions and around temperature
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The Irish Potato Famine was a great famine that took place in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. The famine was caused by a potato disease‚ also called a potato blight. This was a huge problem especially considering that much of Ireland’s population was heavily reliant on potato crops. The famine itself killed around one million people. The question of genocide comes in when the British are taken into account. Ireland was dependent to Britain‚ much like how today countries like Puerto Rico are dependent
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Gerald Keegan’s Famine Diary Written by: James J Managan The Irish Famine was a very important event that happened in 1847. It had killed between 500‚000 and 1.5 million people (The Irish Potato famine‚ 1847). The potato was not even a native crop to Ireland‚ until around 1570 when it was brought over from The Americas. In the beginning‚ the potato seemed like it was the ideal crop for reasons such as it grew perfectly in the Irish climate‚ it was easy to grow‚ and it did not take up much
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This is a poem concerned with Irish history. Looming over the scene depicted is the spectre of the potato famine that afflicted Ireland from 1845-49. The potato crop‚ staple for the Irish‚ failed‚ and with cataclysmic results. About half the population of three million died‚ while a million people emigrated – many to America. The first section of the poem is written in alternately rhymed quatrains that describe a rural scene of potato digging that is clearly in progress much later than a similar
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THE IRISH POTATO FAMINE Pre-Famine History The potato was introduced to Europe sometime in the 16th century. There are many theories on how it arrived‚ but the one with the most credibility is from a case study done by Theresa Purcell. She explains how the white potato‚ also known as the Irish potato‚ originated in the Andean Mountains and was brought to Europe by the Spaniards. The potato was originally classified in the same family as the poisonous nightshade so people refrained from eating
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or known as the Great hunger was in Ireland until 1845-49. People of all ages were affected.Since the soil was poor‚ potatoes didn’t grow like they’re supposted to. The cause‚ a failure of the Irish potato crop due to an infestation of Phytophora infestans‚ a microscopic fungus‚ also called the potato blight.They think that the disease was brought him by an American boat.After the people planted them the potatoes came back rotten.It left poor people with little to eat.The weather alternated between
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During the late 1800s Ireland and its people went through a very rough time. Not only did they struggle economically‚ but also the food that they depended on was scarce. Later you will be able to read a more in depth description of the situation of the country. On the other hand‚ at the same time‚ a famous Irish writer called Jonathan Swift wrote an essay called “A Modest Proposal”. In this essay he proposed a possible solution to the problem Ireland was going through. At the end of his work he said
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Chapter 14 By Lucas Knoll Market Revolution Industrial Revolution Transportation Revolution with roads‚ canals‚ steamboats‚ railroad There was a Change to large-scale cash crop farming from the old subsistence farming Regions started to specify in different things (East‚ West‚ and South) More immigration especially with Irish and German more westward movements‚ and growth of cities Immigration in 1840 and 1850 immigration skyrockets because of opportunity‚ abundance of land‚ and diseases throughout
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The lumper fed Ireland for a time‚ but it also set the stage for human and economic ruin. Evolutionary theory suggests that populations with low genetic variation are more vulnerable to changing environmental conditions than are diverse populations. The Irish potato clones were certainly low on genetic variation‚ so when the environment changed and a potato disease swept through the country in the 1840s‚ the potatoes (and the people who depended upon them) were devastated.Thesis: The Irish Potato
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