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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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    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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    The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 (Irish: Bliain an Áir, meaning the Year of Slaughter) in the Kingdom of Ireland, is estimated to have killed between 13%...
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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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    The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the...
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  • (1869) Great Famine of 1876–1878 Great Famine (Ireland) (1845–1852) Kan'ei Great Famine (1640–1643) Great Tenmei famine (1782–1788) Tenpō famine or Great Tenpō...
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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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    The Famine Memorial, officially titled Famine, is a memorial in Dublin, Ireland. The memorial, which stands on Customs House Quay, is in remembrance of...
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  • The Great Famine (Ireland) (1845–49) is sometimes referred to as the Irish Potato Famine or an Gorta Mór. Irish famine may also refer to: Irish Famine (1740–41)...
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    The Great Famine of Ireland is memorialized in many locations throughout Ireland, especially in those regions that suffered the greatest losses, and also...
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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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    Kindred Spirits (sculpture) (category Great Famine (Ireland) monuments and memorials)
    Cork, Ireland. Created by artist Alex Pentek, Kindred Spirits commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw people to Irish famine relief...
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  • Great Irish Famine's effect on the United States economy was substantial. Irish immigration to the United States during the Great Famine in Ireland was...
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    Coffin ship (redirect from Famine ship)
    coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders...
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  • Black '47 (film) (category Works about the Great Famine (Ireland))
    Dunford, and Sarah Greene. Set in Connemara during the Great Irish Famine, the film follows an Irish Catholic soldier who has been fighting for the British...
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  • cultivation throughout Ireland, prior to the 1840s, is implicated in the Irish Great Famine in which an estimated 1 million died. The 'Irish Lumper' is noted...
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    Famine walls were built throughout Ireland, especially in the west and south, in the mid-19th century, during the Great Famine. The walls were built as...
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    responsible for facilitating the government's response to the Great Famine in Ireland. In the late 1850s and 1860s he served there in senior-level appointments...
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    City Walk Photo Tour of Irish Hunger Memorial New York's garden monument to the Irish Famine Tourist Information Site Irish Hunger Memorial brochure...
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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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    Indian famines, including the Bengal famine of 1770, the Chalisa famine, the Doji bara famine, the Great Famine of 1876–1878, and the Bengal famine of 1943...
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    In 1851, as the Great Famine was ending, the population of Ireland had dropped to 6.5 million people. The Famine and the resulting Irish diaspora had a...
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    Holodomor (redirect from Urkrainian famine)
    The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a human-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The...
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  • Under the Hawthorn Tree (novel) (category Works about the Great Famine (Ireland))
    Conlon-McKenna, the first in her Children of the Famine trilogy set at the time of the Great Famine in Ireland. It was published by the O'Brien Press in May...
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    Poor relief (category Poor Law in Britain and Ireland)
    1834, Ireland experienced a severe potato blight that lasted from 1845 to 1849 and killed an estimated 1.5 million people. The effects of the famine lasted...
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    The Doolough Tragedy is an event that took place during the Great Irish Famine close to Doo Lough in southwest County Mayo. At least seven (and perhaps...
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  • creating accounts of the Great Famine. Tóibín wrote his volume in part, for Irish-Americans; he has been critical of how the Great Famine has been taught in...
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    United States in the mid-19th century because of the Great Famine in Ireland. Some of the first Irish people to travel to the New World did so as members...
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  • reference to the 1840s' Great Famine of Ireland. The song is often heard at loyalist marches in Northern Ireland.[citation needed] "The Famine Song" has received...
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  • The Fields of Athenry (category Works about the Great Famine (Ireland))
    written in 1979 by Pete St. John in the style of an Irish folk ballad. Set during the Great Famine of the 1840s, the lyrics feature a fictional man from...
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