The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In 1845, farmers around Europe suffered from a blight that devastated the potato crop.

This lasted for several years but nowhere

was in more pronounced than it was in the island of Ireland where it resulted in death

and mass migration. The effect of this potato blight can still be witnessed in the world today.

Learn more about the great Irish famine, also known as the Irish potato famine,

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To understand how and why the Irish potato famine occurred, there are a few things we need to understand first.

And the most important was the economic and political situation in Ireland at the time.

Despite the fact that Ireland was supposedly fully integrated into the United Kingdom, it was in reality a colony.

Having been conquered by England, almost all major

landowners in Ireland were English or Anglo Irish. In theory, they had

representation in Parliament in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords,

but almost all of those people were also

wealthy Englishmen.

Many of the land owners in Ireland also didn't even live there.

They simply had no connection to the land or the people who worked on the land. It was simply an investment.

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