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the Irish Famine

DEFINITIONS OF: the Irish Famine

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n a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)

Synonyms:
the Great Calamity, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation
Type of:
famine
a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
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