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    The National Famine Museum (Irish: Músaem Náisiúnta an Ghorta Mhóir) is located at Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland. The museum contains records...
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    The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of...
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    Strokestown Park (category Museums in County Roscommon)
    (120 ha). Privately owned by the Westward Group, the house and National Famine Museum which occupies its former out buildings are both open to the public...
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    Holodomor (redirect from Urkrainian famine)
    The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor...
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    The legacy of the Great Famine in Ireland (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol, litt: The Bad Life) followed a catastrophic period of Irish history between...
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    Strokestown Park House, an 18th-century mansion which is home to the National Famine Museum. "Strokestown" is a partial translation of the original Irish language...
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    Centre and Famine Museum has exhibits and memorial on the effects of the famine in Inishowen, Donegal. [1] County Dublin Customs House Quays: Famine Memorial...
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    "Quinn and Tighe Siblings | Irish Famine Orphan Profiles and Stories". Irish Famine Archive. Retrieved 11 April 2017. EPIC the Irish Emigration Museum...
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    Bengal famine Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union Famine in India Famines in the Czech lands Famines in Ethiopia Great Bengal famine of 1770...
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  • Lovers of Liberty? Local government in twentieth-century Ireland The Irish Famine (co-authored with Colm Tóibín). Profile Books Ltd. ISBN 1-86197-460-4 The...
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    The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including...
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  • system became particularly detrimental to the Irish public during the Great Famine when, despite Ireland being a net exporter of food, millions starved, died...
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    Coffin ship (redirect from Famine ship)
    describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances. Coffin ships carrying...
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  • The Irish famine of 1879 was the last main Irish famine. Unlike the earlier Great Famines of 1740–1741 and 1845–1852, the 1879 famine (sometimes called...
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    Lionel de Rothschild (category National Portrait Gallery (London) person ID same as Wikidata)
    private provider of relief during the Great Irish and Highland Potato famines raising over £500,000. The eldest son of Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his...
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    arrived. It is sometimes called the Famine Rebellion (because it took place as a result of the Great Irish Famine), the Battle of Ballingarry or the Battle...
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    (First English edition; Australian edition published 2001) The Irish Famine. A Documentary. With Diarmaid Ferriter, Profile Books Limited, 2001. ISBN 9781861972491...
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    disaster of the great famine came to Ireland. In January 1847, a group of English banking leaders combined to raise funds for famine relief via a private...
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    A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread...
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    Kartoffelmuseum ("Potato Museum of Vorpommern") in Tribsees (de) National Famine Museum Museo della patata ("Potato Museum") in Budrio There is a Bulvės...
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    promoted to field marshal. He was also a ruthless landlord during the Great Famine in Ireland, evicting thousands of his tenants and renting his land to wealthy...
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    The chronology of the Great Famine (Irish: An Gorta Mór or An Drochshaol, lit. 'The Bad Life') documents a period of Irish history between 29 November...
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    Ukraine's national museum and a centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, a man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine. The museum was...
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    the phrase "desire of wealth". Senior reportedly said of the Great Irish Famine of 1845 "would not kill more than one million people, and that would scarcely...
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    amid the continuing dire conditions of the Famine. After his death, Mangan was hailed as Ireland's first national poet and admired by writers such as James...
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  • famine of 1946–1947 was a major famine in the Soviet Union that lasted from mid-1946 to the winter of 1947 to 1948. It was also the last major famine...
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  • The population of the Gaza Strip is at high risk of famine as a result of Israeli airstrikes during the Israel–Hamas war and an Israeli blockade, including...
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  • history of Ireland, Irish demographic changes, the Great Irish Famine (as well as other famines), and the history of the Jews in Ireland. After getting his...
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    Forest Park McDermott's Castle Meehambee Dolmen National Famine Museum Rathcroghan Roscommon County Museum Strokestown Park Roscommon is governed locally...
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    Souperism (category Great Famine (Ireland))
    Souperism was a phenomenon of the Irish Great Famine. Protestant Bible societies set up schools in which starving children were fed, on the condition of...
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