A 19th Century illustration of an old Irish woman in her Connemara cottage in County Galway, dying from starvation during the Great Famine, a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 in which about 1 million people died and more than a million fled the country. The main cause was a blight that infected potato crops. It's effects were exacerbated by single-crop dependence, absentee landlordism and the British Whig government's policy of laissez-faire capitalism.

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Size: 3651px × 3372px
Location: Conemara, County Galway, Ireland
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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