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But in the Irish famine of the late 1840s, successive blasts of potato blight - or to give it its proper name, the fungus Phytophthora infestans - robbed more than one-third of the population of their usual means of subsistence for four or five years in a row.
Significance of the Great Famine. The Irish Famine, which in Ireland became known as The Great Hunger, was the great turning point in Irish history. It changed the society forever, most strikingly by greatly reducing the population. In 1841 Ireland's population was more than eight million.