The blight that destroyed potato crops in the late 1840s reduced the island’s population by almost one-quarter. For nearly two centuries, historians with an Irish-nationalist bent have explained ...

Scotland's History Land and Votes Potato blight ruins Scottish crops The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

Potato Varieties that can withstand it are being produced in central Mexico, the probable home of the blight By John S. Niederhauser & William C. Cobb Join Our Community of Science Lovers!

Having already destroyed most of Ireland's crop, the blight appears in Scotland. Before long it provokes a famine. Video: A history of Scotland: This Land is Our Land.