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24 mars 2015
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Rory Montgomery H.E., « Foreword », Revue française de civilisation britannique, ID : 10.4000/rfcb.197
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The Great Famine was the single greatest tragedy in Irish history. One million people died of starvation and disease in the five years after 1845, when the fungus phytopthora infestans struck Ireland for the first time, causing the blight which destroyed the potato crop on which the rural poor depended so heavily. In the decade from 1845, two million fled the country. The population of Ireland therefore fell by one third in that period: a loss on a scale more reminiscent of the medieval Europ...