Definition of The Irish Famine

1. Noun. 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).


Lexicographical Neighbors of The Irish Famine

the English
the Fates
the Gloomy Dean
the Great Calamity
the Great Commoner
the Great Compromiser
the Great Depression
the Great Elector
the Great Hunger
the Great Starvation
the Green, White and Gold
the Hill
the Himalaya
the Indies
the Irish
the Irish Famine (current term)
the Iron Duke
the Jersey Lillie
the King of Swing
the Kingmaker
the Lady with the Lamp
the Little Corporal
the Nazarene
the Say Hey Kid
the Shiites
the Solent
the Street
the Sunnites
the Swiss
the Taal

Literary usage of The Irish Famine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"A SCENE IN the Irish Famine. [This description is very bitter, but probably very true. It appeared in a letter addressed to The Times, April 22, 1847. ..."

2. Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (1900)
"the Irish Famine (1847) I left Dublin by mail on the i7th of First-month, 1847, and joined my father and his companions at Westport on the following evening ..."

3. Domestic Service by Lucy Maynard Salmon (1897)
"The first of these changes was due to the Irish famine ,of 1846. Previous to this time the immigration to this country from Ireland had been small, ..."

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