If it wasn't severe it wouldn't have been called a "famine". And it was only a famine because of landowner greed. There was a blight but that's not what caused the problems. It's not another story, it is part and parcel with the blight.
JohnE
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JohnE
"and all the lousy little poets
comin round
tryin' to sound like Charlie Manson"
The Future/Leonard Cohen