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the irish famine meaning and definition
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Definition of the Irish Famine (noun)
- 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
Source: Princeton University Wordnet