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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 Facts During the Great Famine of the 1840's in Ireland, thousands fleed for America Many fleed to Boston, and in one year Boston's Irish population jumped from 30,000-100,000 Looking for labor many Irish turned to servitude. Bostonians believed that the Irish were a servant race. 2  Bostonians called their Irish female servants the bridgets or biddys and the males paddys.Many Irish named their children after the two popular Catholic saints however the names carried derisive connotations in America and many tried to erase that legacy.