Potato blight was reported around the ports of New York, and Philadelphia. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland – where a third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food but which also produced an abundance of other food – was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate. The proximate cause was famine resulting from a potato disease commonly known as late blight. 'The Bad Life') documents a period of Irish history between 29 November 18 during which time the population of Ireland was reduced by 20 to 25 percent. The chronology of the Great Famine ( Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol, lit. An 1849 depiction of Bridget O'Donnell and her two children during the famine.
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