the great calamity

Noun
  1. 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) (synset 107330565)
    is a type of: famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
    same as: the great hunger, the great starvation, the irish famine

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