What really caused the Irish Potato Famine - Stephanie Honchell Smith
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For over 200 years, potatoes thrived in Ireland; roughly half the country’s residents lived almost entirely on potatoes. But when harvesting began in 1845, farmers found their potatoes blackened and shriveled. While this failed harvest created a crisis, the government’s response turned it into a national catastrophe. Stephanie Honchell Smith digs into Ireland's Great Famine.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator
- Stephanie H. Smith
- Director
- Denys Spolitak
- Narrator
- Pen-Pen Chen
- Music
- Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio
- Sound Designer
- Amanda P.H. Bennett, cAMP Studio
