The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a ...

爱尔兰大饥荒 （愛爾蘭語： an Gorta Mór， 发音 [anˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]） [1]，又稱 爱尔兰马铃薯饥荒，是一场发生于1845~1852年间的 饥荒 [2][fn 1]。 爱尔兰语占主导地位的爱尔兰西部和南部災情最严重，在这些地方，這個事件又被称作 An Drochshaol[4] （意为“坏时光”、“艰难时刻”），而灾情最严重的的1847年则被称做“黑色47年”（Black 47） [5][6]。 在這場災難中，约有一百万人餓死，另有超过一百万人被迫移民 [7]，使爱尔兰的总人口减少了20%~25% [8]。 致病疫霉 [9] 是 …

An Gorta Mór – Ireland’s Great Hunger. To this day, all over Ireland the landscape bears mute testimony to the events that occurred in the horrific period from 1845 – 1850. Starvation graveyards offer silent tribute to the millions of Irish men,women,and children …

This type of illustration shows the hardship caused by the Irish Famine.

The legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland (Irish: An Gorta Mór [1] or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad Life) followed a catastrophic period of Irish history between 1845 and 1852 [2] during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 50 percent.

An Gorta Mór The failure of the potato crop during the 1840s was a transforming event in Ireland. Apart from the massive loss of life, it established a momentum in emigration that endured for many years and polarised social and political relations in Ireland and with Britain.

During the years 1845 - 1851 Ireland suffered a loss in population of over 1 million people through emigration and a further 1 million people died through starvation and disease.@This period is known by many names, the Great Irish Famine, the Great Hunger or An Gorta Mór to name but a …

Cecil Woodham-Smith, in her 1962 masterpiece, An Gorta Mór or The Great Hunger, Ireland 1845-1848, sets the stage as well as anyone for the great tragedy that befell Ireland in the mid-1840s: “The potato of the mid-nineteenth century, not yet even partially immunized against disease by scientific breeding, was singularly liable to failure.”

An Gorta Mór or the Great Irish Famine has left us with few material objects with a direct verifiable link to this traumatic time. The strength of connection to the Famine story through the objects we can use, varies.

2025年3月24日 · Ireland's Great Famine or An Gorta Mór (The Great Hunger), as it is more commonly referred to today, ranks among the worst tragedies in the sweep of human history. Between 1845 and 1852, approximately 1.5 million Irish men, women and children died of starvation or related diseases.