The Great Famine of 1845-9 remains the great climacteric in Irish history

Volume V [Jonathan Swift], A Short View of the State of Ireland (1727-8), John Rutty, A Chronological History of the Weather and Seasons, and of the Prevailing Diseases in Dublin (1770), William Harty, An Historic Sketch of the Causes, Progress, Extent, and Mortality of the Contagious Fever Epidemic in Ireland during the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819 (1820) (excerpt)