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The cause of the famine was potato blight (Phytophthora infestans), likely from a shipment of tubers from Mexico, that infected crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, causing an additional 100,000 deaths outside Ireland, and triggering much of the unrest in Europe in 1848. https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/06/irish-potato-famine-pathogen-originated-mexico
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