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)
“From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)