Great Famine
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Great Famine can refer to multiple historical famines that are referred to as the "Great Famine".
- Great Famine of 1315-1317 - Northern European famine of the 14th century.
- Great Irish Famine (1740-1741) - 18th century, called by some the "Forgotten Famine," due to its obscurity relative to the later famine of 1845-49.
- Great Irish Famine (1845-1849) - 19th century cause of a great exodus of Irish, forming what is now the Irish diaspora of the Americas, Australia, etc.
- The Irish Famine (book), concerning the same.
- Holodomor - Ukraine 1932-33
- 1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia
A famine is a social and economic crisis that is commonly accompanied by widespread malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
Although many famines coincide with national or regional shortages of food, famine has also occurred amid plenty or on account of
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Although many famines coincide with national or regional shortages of food, famine has also occurred amid plenty or on account of
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Great Irish Famine (1740-1741) was perhaps of similar magnitude to the better-known Great Irish Famine of 1847-49. Unlike the famine of the 1840s, which was caused in part by a fungal infection in the potato crop, that of 1740-41 was due to extremely cold and then rainy weather in
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Great Irish Famine (known as The Great Hunger, An Gorta Mór in Irish, or An Drochshaol, the Bad Life), refers to a famine, and its aftermath, in Ireland between 1845 and 1851.
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The Irish diaspora consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and states of the Caribbean and continental Europe.
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Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. The Americas cover 8.3% of the Earth's total surface area (28.
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Largest city Sydney
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The Irish Famine
Author Colm TóibÃn and Diarmaid Ferriter
Country England, Ireland
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Profile Books Limited
Publication date 3 May 2001
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Author Colm TóibÃn and Diarmaid Ferriter
Country England, Ireland
Language English
Genre(s) Novel
Publisher Profile Books Limited
Publication date 3 May 2001
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The Ukrainian famine (1932-1933), or Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор), was one of the largest national catastrophes of the Ukrainian nation in modern history with direct loss of human life in the range of millions
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