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the Great Starvation

noun

1 the Great Starvation

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 Irish Famine.


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