Here's a short clip from a documentary on "The Great Hunger" , Ireland in the 1840's. | Videos of Irish Farming Life

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór) the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. It constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.The most severely affected areas were in the western and southern parts of Ireland—where the Irish language was dominant—hence the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as an Drochshaol, which literally t