Potato famine may refer to:
- Great Famine (Ireland), the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1852
- Highland Potato Famine, a major agrarian crisis in the Scottish Highlands from 1846 to 1857
- European Potato Famine, the wider agrarian crisis in Europe contemporaneous to the Irish and Highland potato famines
Famous quotes containing the words potato and/or famine:
“The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.”
—Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
“He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 5:19-23.