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In 1845, a microscopic fungus crossed the Atlantic and landed in Ireland. It was invisible, airborne, and it had a single target: the potato. For a nation of 8 million people, where almost half the population depended entirely on this one crop for survival, it was a death sentence. This wasn't just a failed harvest. This was the beginning of a seven-year siege by nature itself. A slow, agonizing collapse of a nation's food supply that would kill over a million people and force millions more to flee.

This was the Great Hunger. An Gorta Mór.

As the potato fields turned to black, stinking rot, a desperate search for calories began. But in a country already stripped of its resources, where grain and cattle were being exported to England under armed guard, what was left to eat? The answer was found in the margins of society. On the windswept coasts, in the ditches, and in the weeds growing between the cobblestones. Families were forced to relearn a forgotten knowledge, a dangerous science of turning the inedible into the edible.

How do you prepare seaweed to make it digestible? What is the secret to cooking toxic shellfish so they don't kill you? How do you process government relief corn that is so hard it breaks your teeth? These weren't recipes; they were survival algorithms, passed down in whispers while the authorities looked the other way.

Today, we are breaking down the five desperate foods that Irish families were forced to eat to survive seven years of famine.

Survival isn't theory—it's history. This is The Prepper Age.