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THE IRISH FAMINE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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; the Irish Famine
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Hypernyms ("the Irish Famine" is a kind of...):
famine (a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death)
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