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The Great Starvation

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 Irish Famine.

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... say a few words as to what this Palace may and may not do. In the first place, it can do nothing, absolutely nothing, to relieve the great starvation and misery which lies all about London, but more especially at the East-end. People who are out of work and starving do not want amusement, not even of the highest kind; still less do they want University extension. Therefore, as regards ...

— As We Are and As We May Be • Sir Walter Besant

Words linked to "The Great Starvation" : the Great Calamity, famine