Late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

"There has been widespread famine and starvation and human dying in the past in large droughts.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

"In the middle of the twentieth century, experts predicted famine and starvation.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Yevgeniy Dubovik says there is no point in dwelling on the past, because everyone knows about the famine anyway and life after collectivization was fine.

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

"When she was much younger, she actually made rather hateful comments about Irish immigrants that were pouring into the country, escaping famine conditions in Ireland."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22