And a strange penultimate chapter on the Irish potato famine in which the potato blight is the villain, responsible for many deaths and massive emigration (shades of McNeill?).
奇怪的是倒数第二章写道大规模的移民应对爱尔兰的马铃薯饑荒造成更多人饿死而负责。
A century later, it had become the major food crop in Ireland; disastrous damage to the crop by a fungal blight caused the Irish potato famine in the mid-1800s.