Thanks for elaborating Fionn. Don't know much about it, but I am getting educated .. here etc. Interesting about the DNA traces link.

When I think about potatoes and hunger, it always reminds me of Van Gogh's painting:

The potato eaters 1886



Are they drinking tea or coffee? Not the same period as Irish famine/genocide, and 20 odd years later, but I would have thought it describes the village life in this still semi-feudal Europe.