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Why was the potato so important?


Ireland was no stranger to hunger on the eve of the Great Famine. At the beginning of July 1845, however, Ireland’s potato crop looked promising. The weather had been dry and warm and the maturing leaves looked healthy. On 23 July The Freeman’s Journal proclaimed that the poor man s property, the potato crop, was never before so large and at the same time so abundant .
In August, however, disaster struck with deathly speed.
The Gardeners Chronicle and Horticultural Gazette of 16 August reported ‘a blight of unusual character in the Isle of Wight. Within a month the same publication announced, with regret, that ‘the potato Murrain has unequivocally declared itself in Ireland’. ....

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