👍
#Irish #History
You might want 2 add the #PotatoeFamine hashtag.

Only due to this new crop which originates in #Peru, was the #IrishPopulationExplosion possible: from approximately 2 million in 1700 to 8.5 million by 1845.

The algae (#PhytophthoraInfestans) that caused successive crop failures of the imported #Monoculture staple diet, led 2 a #PotatoDisease called #LateBlight. It originated in the #Toluca Valley in 🇲🇽 and spread from the 🇺🇸 2 🇮🇪.

sheetofhistory.com/2025/12/the…

The Great Irish Famine: How the Potato Blight Claimed a Million Lives

  The Great Irish Famine: How the Potato Blight Claimed a Million Lives Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland experienced one of the most dev...

^{sheet of history (sheet of histoey)}