WordNet: the Great Calamity, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine

Sanatista
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)



the Great Calamity


the Great Hunger


the Great Starvation


the Irish Famine