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the Irish Famine the Great Hunger the Great Starvation the Great Calamity Great Famine

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) WordNet 3.0

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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) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

The Great Famine, also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis which subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. Wikipedia

Occasion for the great exodus of Irish and the Irish diaspora Wikipedia Disambiguation

1846 -1852 famine in Ireland Wikidata

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