t began as a fungus that traveled in crates of potatoes from America to Belgium in 1843. Within one and one-half years, the wind-borne blight had converted Ireland's once abundant potato crop into acres of rotted vegetation, precipitating one of the worst social disasters of the 19th century, The Great Hunger.    Quinnipiac University's multimedia production of the Killarney Workhouse Minute books           Essay on the Irish Famine: An Popal Briste This site was made possible by the Kerry County Library at Tralee and Quinnipiac University's Arnold Bernard Library, Ireland Studies Program, School of Communications and Office of Public Affairs. Information presented in this site is for educational purposes only. For comments or suggestions, email Terry.Ballard@quinnipiac.edu