the Great Hunger

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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)
• Syn:
the Irish Famine, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity
• Hypernyms:
famine