I wrote to Downing Street last year asking if the Prime Minister through marriage was related to my grandfather, who came over from Southern Ireland during the
potato famine as did, I presume, her husband's family.
I am an immigrant, or it is appropriate to say that my ancestors were immigrants and fled Ireland during the Irish
Potato Famine in 1845-49.
New York student Benjamin 'Benjy' Firester has won one of the United States' top young science prizes for his research on the devastating microorganism which caused the Irish
Potato Famine, devising a computer model that could prevent it causing billions of dollars in lost crops every year.
At the height of the Irish
potato famine of the 1840s, for instance, life expectancy dropped to 18.7 years for men, but to only 22.4 for women.
Victoria ITV, 9pm DRAMA The Irish
Potato Famine isn't the sexiest of topics for a Sunday night drama, but the reality of the horror across the sea is reaching the Palace and Victoria believes her government must act.
Bray recounts how confiscation of Irish land by officers and agents of Tudor monarchs led to the mass emigration of Irish people, beginning the early 18th century but opening to a flood when the
potato famine of the middle 19th century made the little land left to the Irish infertile.
(As the film points out, the Great Irish
Potato Famine came about partly because of a lack of potato species variety on the Emerald Isle.) This could be a very dry subject, but directors Jon Betz and Taggart Siegel have concocted a surprisingly gorgeous and engaging documentary.
Among those taking part in the Liverpool protest was Vicki Worthington, who said St Luke's had been chosen because it has a memorial to those who suffered in the Irish
potato famine.
Orphaned Irish siblings Molly and Kip, fleeing the
potato famine, arrive at Windsor estate to work as servants at the creepy, crumbling English manor house that is entwined with a massive, sinister tree.
That disease has plagued farmers for generations and triggered the Irish
potato famine in the 1840s, the BBC reported.