Until History Finally Ceases to Repeat Itself

The Great Hunger of Ireland offers cautionary warnings about famines and food systems

Just two blocks east of the Boston Common, on the plaza corner of Washington and School street, there sits a relatively small and obscure memorial to what was known in history as “An Gorta Mór”, the Great Hunger of Ireland. Starting in 1845, an airborne fungal infection wiped out the majority of Ireland’s potato crop and served as the primary trigger fo…