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But in the Irish famine of the late 1840s, successive blasts of potato blight - or to give it its proper name, the fungus Phytophthora infestans - robbed more than one-third of the population of their usual means of subsistence for four or five years in a row.
When farmers went to harvest their crop, they were faced with a rancid smell, and to find that their potatoes had turned to slime. This led to the Famine, the single most devastating episode in Irish history. In a few short years, the Irish population dropped from 12 million to 4 million.