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• n  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)

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

News & Articles

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• The world remembers sufferers of the Great Irish Famine
  This past Sunday, Irish around the world observed the first ever Famine Memorial Day in commemoration of The Great Irish Famine, or “An Gorta Mor” (The Great Hunger).
  June 28, 2013 - Irish Central
• Looks At Books
  It's impossible to understate Mary Pat Kelly's achievement in her new novel "Galway Bay." An evocation of the Great Hunger and the mass exodus to America that followed in its wake, the epic scale of Kelly's canvas is a thing to marvel at.
  June 27, 2013 - Irish Central
• Galway Bay
  The list of hefty novels which explore the terrible time of the Great Hunger continues to grow, and is all the more noteworthy because so many of the works are impressive.
  June 27, 2013 - Irish Central