Great Famine
Potato blight disaster
The Great Famine most commonly refers to the Irish famine of 1845–1852, caused by potato blight and British colonial policies, which killed roughly a million people and drove mass emigration.
The term also applies to other catastrophic famines: the Great Famine of 1315–1317 in Europe, or China's 1959–1961 famine during the Great Leap Forward.
Context usually clarifies which disaster is meant.
- HolodomorEngineered Soviet famine
- potatoEdible underground tuber
- food exportsEdibles sold internationally
- workhouseInstitution housing poor laborers
- landlordsRental property owners
tenant farmers · United States · Dublin · eviction · coffin ships · War · Ellis Island · typhus · Ireland · Irish diaspora · 1840s · Galway · St. Patrick's Day · Easter Rising · Michael Collins · relief · death · mass graves
- Irish HistoryEaster Rising, Irish nationalism, Irish War of Independence, Irish Civil War, Irish Free State
- Communist ChinaCommunist Party, People's Republic, Gang of Four, Central Committee, Marxism-Leninism
- faminehunger, crop failure, food scarcity, malnutrition, grain shortage
- Irish DiasporaIrish immigration, Irish Americans, Irish immigrants, Irish diaspora, emigration
- Late Medievalfeudal lords, Black Death, knighthood, medieval knights, bubonic plague
- Medieval FranceValois, Philip II, Charles VII, Saint Louis, Joan of Arc
Great Famineabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
plenty · feast · surplus · glut · cornucopia
Great Faminegolden age
Period of peak prosperity
prosperity · economic boom · flourishing · boom · economic miracle
great, greatest, greater, famine, starvation, famished, famish, famines, famishing