the Great Calamity

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
the Great Calamity
    n 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) [syn: {the Irish
         Famine}, {the Great Hunger}, {the Great Starvation}, {the
         Great Calamity}]
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