Life-sustaining potatoes collapse into slime, and all over Ireland, the common people face starvation, each village praying that it is spared, but no… A tiny organism swept through the main food crop of Ireland in the mid-1800s, leading to a million deaths by starvation and two million people emigrating from their beloved green isle. Lorraine … Continue reading Potato crop dies, HUNGER remains… by Donna Jo Napoli (book review)