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The Irish Famine   /ˈaɪrɪʃ fˈæmən/   Listen
The Irish Famine

noun
1.
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.






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