Given that the famine of 1740-1741 killed 38% of the population of Ireland, it was pretty horrible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%9341)

Given that the famine of 1740-1741 killed 38% of the population of Ireland, it was pretty horrible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%9341) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%9341) And the peasant's lot didn't improve much, as this happened less than 100 years later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) ...and here's an eyewitness account from the same site regarding the latter famine: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/irishfamine.htm http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/irishfamine.htm