Great Famine (Ireland)
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In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852.
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See also
- Great Irish Famine (1740–1741)
- Irish Famine (1879)
- Legacy of the Great Irish Famine (continuation of this article)
- Highland Potato Famine (agrarian crisis in Scotland at the same time)
- European Potato Famine (the wider agrarian crisis in Europe at the same time)
- List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom
- "Fields of Athenry", a popular song about the famine
- List of famines
- Holodomor, a 1930s famine in Ukraine, the causes of which are also the subject of debate
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