Posted inPhotographs Source Documents Great Potato Famine (1846) May 23, 2023 A food riot in Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, Ireland, during the famine. The Pictorial Times. October 10, 1846. In 1848, Thomas Waters Jr. would help bring corn and other goods to the starving Irish on Brig Pageant. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. See also P. 204 of the By Sea, By Land book. PRINT