Within a day or two, however, rot set in. The most striking thing about the ghastly blight that ruined Ireland’s potato crop in 1845 was that the harvest had seemed healthy, even robust, when it was lifted from the ground. Thousands more, though, were saved by the exertions of relief funds–the contributors to which included both the Ottoman sultan and Queen Victoria.
At least a million people–one in eight of the population–starved to death during the disaster. A destitute Irish family search a stubble field for healthy potatoes at the height of the Great Famine of 1845-51.
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