the Irish Famine
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- noun
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la Gran Hambruna Irlandesa
- For the Great Famine, I assign, in addition to Miller, Peter Gray's short volume, The Irish Famine, which presents an effective array of illustrations and documents alongside a lucid and compelling text.
- the Great Irish Famine
Examples
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After discussing the Great Irish Famine and emigration from Ireland, I moved into the main part of the course on Irish America.
Academic text (2002) -
The Irish famine is sometimes used to illustrate this point.
Academic text (2018) -
That the British appear to have engineered the Irish Famine is a valuable warning that provides direction.
Blog text (10) -
That the British appear to have engineered the Irish Famine is a valuable warning that provides direction.
Blog text (10) -
As for books, this year I used Peter Gray's book The Irish Famine - excellent for undergraduates; Edwin O'Connor's novel, The Last Hurrah - always a success;
Academic text (2002) -
As for books, this year I used Peter Gray's book The Irish Famine - excellent for undergraduates; Edwin O'Connor's novel, The Last Hurrah - always a success;
Academic text (2002) -
For the Great Famine, I assign, in addition to Miller, Peter Gray's short volume, The Irish Famine, which presents an effective array of illustrations and documents alongside a lucid and compelling text.
Academic text (2002) -
In 1995, at a special folklore workshop devoted to the Great Irish Famine, an instructor of an adult Irish language revitalization program in Ireland began the discussion of relief by relating the following anecdote:
Academic text (2001) -
A priori analytical definitions of what the Great Irish Famine meant, that is, the "received wisdom" that "the Famine came and people died," were circumvented or replaced by a presentation of behaviors that were interpreted as strategic and laudatory.
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During the Great Irish Famine, many families faced starvation as they struggled to find food.
Synonyms
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A very large shortage of food that causes many people to starve
A famine in Ireland from 1846 to 1851 caused by a potato disease that forced many people to leave
A period of mass hunger in Ireland from 1846 to 1851 that causes many people to leave
A severe famine in Ireland from 1846 to 1851 that killed about one million people
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Irish' (pertaining to Ireland) modifies 'famine' (widespread hunger), so the meaning is simply a famine associated with Ireland. A B1 learner who knows the constituent words will therefore understand it refers to a (historical) famine in Ireland, even if they may not know the exact dates or details.
Etymology
The name the Irish Famine comes from a terrible time in Ireland when a disease killed the potato crop, leaving empty fields and families with no food. That is why the name now means the years between 1845 and 1852 when there was 'starvation' and 'mass emigration'.