Irish+Potato+Famine+and+Other+Great+Famines+in+History




 * //Event Summary//**

[|The Great Famine of 1845]

[|The Irish Potato Famine]

[|Monoculture and the Irish Potato Famine: Cases of Missing Genetic Variation] from Understanding Evolution, University of California Berkeley

[|Scientists Finally PinPoint the Pathogen that Caused the Irish Potato Famine], Smithsonian, May 21, 2013

[|British involvement and inaction] during the Irish Potato Famine.

The Potato Famine and [|Irish Immigration to America].

[|Leadership shown by Irish women] during the Irish Potato Famine.



Multimedia Sources
The Irish Potato Famine Documentary combines music, photographs and text (without a voice over) in a short YouTube video.

The Irish Potato Famine offers an animated overview of the event on Vimeo

[|The Irish Potato Famine and the coffin ships.]



Irish Potato Famine Lesson Plans
[|Forced to Flee: Famine and Plague] , Discovery Education

[|Hunger on Trial: An Activity on the Irish Potato Famine and Its Meaning for Today,] Zinn Education Project

During the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved, landlords exported 17 million pounds sterling worth of grain, cattle, pigs, flour, eggs, and poultry—food that could have prevented those deaths. See the book, //Paddy’s Lament by //Thomas Gallagher.
 * [|The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools]**, Bill Bigelow, Zinn Education Project, March 16, 2012

Tom Brady's Roots Run Deep into 19th-Century Boston, The Boston Globe (March 4, 2017)
 * Football Quarterback Tom Brady's great-great-grandparents came to the United States during Ireland's Great Famine

Famines In History

 * The Great Famine in China, 1959-1961**
 * **Largest Famine in human history**
 * **30 million died; 30 million births lost or postponed**
 * **Created by Mao's decision to launch The Great Leap Forward**




 * Ukrainian Black Famine (Soviet or Stalin's Great Famine of 1932-1933)**


 * The Great Famine of 1315**