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The Great Hunger

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 Starvation, the Irish Famine.

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... her room that night she threw herself on her knees beside the bed and tried to pray. She felt more lonely and heartsick than she ever felt before in her life. She did not know what the great hunger in her heart meant. It was terrible to think David had loved Kate. Kate never loved him in return in the right way. Marcia felt very sure of that. She wished she might have had the chance in Kate's place, and then all of a sudden the revelation came ...

— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

Words linked to "The Great Hunger" : the Irish Famine, famine, the Great Starvation