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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.
The potato was the staple food of Ireland at the time, with most of the population relying on it for much of their diet. Poor people who lived in rural areas tended to eat potatoes almost exclusively. From 1845 to 1849 a plant disease caused the potato crops in Ireland to fail, year after year.