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)
“I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)