Ejectment of Irish peasants: a print from "The Illustrated London News", 1848. The Irish Potato Famine: Irish peasant families were evicted as they were unable to pay their rent because of the failure of the potato crop due to Potato Blight. The Great Famine, Great Hunger or Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1849.

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