Ireland became the first region of Europe to cultivate the potato on a large scale in the early 1600s and it became so successful there, it rapidly accelerated the Irish population's growth rates.

17 世纪初，爱尔兰成为欧洲第一个大规模种植马铃薯的地区，马铃薯在那里非常成功，它迅速加快了爱尔兰人口的增长率。